Harvard

The four fellows from the Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s JFK Kennedy School of Government produced stories working respectively in the incubators of Columbia, North Carolina and Southern California (two).

• Farming in the Time of Economic Cholera

  California’s farm lands and its workers grapple with a shift from a labor shortage to a labor glut in a time of decreased consumer demand.

• Recession's Impact on California Entrepreneurship
  Tim Kane, senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, talks about what the impact of the recession means for California’s competitiveness as a center of entrepreneurship.
• Rebuilding New Orleans from the School Up
  Hurricane Katrina washed away most of New Orleans’ traditional public schools and cleared the way for a new “open-choice” system dominated by charters. These schools draw students from all over the city. What happens when communities are fractured and new ones emerge?