Consciousshift With Julie Ann Turner

According to rising young economist Enrico Moretti, of U.C. Berkeley, we are in the midst of an unprecedented redistribution of jobs, population, and wealth - and a huge shift in the world's centers of innovation - that will only accelerate in the years to come.Tectonic shifts are reshaping the labor market — from globalization and income inequality to immigration and technological progress — and these shifts are dramatically affecting our communities.New Innnovation Hubs are emerging - cities with a well-educated labor force and a strong innovation sector. Their workers are among the most productive, creative, and best paid on the planet. At the other extreme are cities once dominated by traditional manufacturing, which are declining rapidly, losing jobs and residents.In the middle are a number of cities that could go either way - and, for the past 30 years, these differences have been diverging at an accelerating rate. This divergence is one the most important recent developments and is causing growing geog