Les paradoxes de la puissance californienne Aux États-Unis, la Californie n’est pas un État banal, tout au contraire, comme l’expriment Walker et Suresh (2013) : « La Californie est un monde à part, une région en soi, un État dans l’État, un territoire doté d’un caractère propre » [1] (p. 9) ; en outre, comme ces fins connaisseurs de la Californie le soulignent également, la Californie est, d’abord, un mythe. Aux États-Unis, la Californie est un État dont le poids va croissant. Différentes facettes de l’avènement de la Californie comme État « central » aux États-Unis peuvent être mises en avant, à partir de quelques éléments factuels.Du point de vue démographique, la Californie était, au début du XXe siècle, un État relativement marginal (elle représentait alors 2 % de la population du pays) ; pesant aujourd’hui 12,2 % du total national, la Californie est l’État le plus important des États-Unis. 2. Les moteurs de la puissance californienne 2.1. 2.2. La Californie est un centre mondial majeur en matière d’innovation. 3. 3.1. 3.2.
uk.businessinsider Where Are The Jobs? [carte] [interactif] Where Are The Jobs? Employment in America, 2010 Leaflet | Jobs: Map data from US Census LEHD, Imagery by Robert Manduca under CC BY 4.0, Background: Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. One Dot = One Job. Geography of Poverty | msnbc An example of this phenomenon is the Atlanta metropolitan area, where sojourners from all over the country flocked for the affordable housing and good schools. A recent report found 88% of Atlanta’s poor now live in the suburbs, and the area’s poor population grew by 159% between 2010 and 2011. By 2011, the same report found, the number of people living below the poverty rate in the suburbs across the country numbered a whopping 16.4 million, surpassing those living in cities. The notion of an escape, of climbing out of poverty, of pulling one’s self up from the trenches to something better, is as elusive as ever. President Barack Obama talked at length about poverty during a recent conference at Georgetown University, urging liberals and conservatives to work together to attack the challenge head on. “Talk to any of my Republican friends,” Obama said. Obama noted his own failed effort to raise taxes on hedge fund managers as an example of the refusal by lawmakers to help the poor.
A New Map for America [carte] We don’t have to create these regions; they already exist, on two levels. First, there are now seven distinct super-regions, defined by common economics and demographics, like the Pacific Coast and the Great Lakes. Within these, in addition to America’s main metro hubs, we find new urban archipelagos, including the Arizona Sun Corridor, from Phoenix to Tucson; the Front Range, from Salt Lake City to Denver to Albuquerque; the Cascadia belt, from Vancouver to Seattle; and the Piedmont Atlantic cluster, from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C. Federal policy should refocus on helping these nascent archipelagos prosper, and helping others emerge, in places like Minneapolis and Memphis, collectively forming a lattice of productive metro-regions efficiently connected through better highways, railways and fiber-optic cables: a United City-States of America. Similar shifts can be found around the world. Western countries are following suit. What would this approach look like in America?
World Water Day: Mapping the spread of dams in the US — CartoDB Blog World Water Day was celebrated this past Sunday bringing attention to issues around water and sustainable development. Given current water use, the UN predicts the world will face a 40% shortfall in water by 2030. Recent news on California’s on-going drought, and the environmental risk posed by hundreds of dams in the US highlight the importance of water in our lives. Much of American history, both geological and cultural, is linked to the rivers of the nation. Dams, as barriers to river flow, fit into the fabric of that narrative. There are over 80,000 dams in the US, many of them built in the early 1900s. Impact: Energy and Environmental Factors Around the world, hydropower generates 16% of global electricity production. While hydropower can be a source of economic development, dams can also pose significant risk to the environment. Strategy: Placement and Propagation Who gives a Dam? Dams and the water flow rates they manage translate into pretty powerful political capital.
Les Etats-Unis, une puissance en crise d'adaptation Alexandra DE HOOP SCHEFFER, "Les Etats-Unis, une puissance en crise d'adaptation", , 2013, [en ligne], consulté le 22/05/2019, URL : « J’ai sans doute davantage conscience que tout autre non seulement de nos incroyables forces et capacités, mais aussi de nos limites. Dans une situation comme celle de la Syrie, je dois me poser la question suivante : pouvons-nous faire une différence ? « Il y aura des situations dans lesquelles ce n’est pas notre sécurité, mais nos valeurs qui seront directement menacées. Références • BRZEZINSKI Z. (1997) The Grand Chessboard, New York, Basic Books. • HAASS R. • HAASS R. • HAGEL C. (2004) « A Republican Foreign Policy », Foreign Affairs, vol. 83, n°4, pp. 64-76. • HUNTINGTON S. (1999) « The Lonely Superpower », Foreign Affairs, vol.78, n°2, pp. 35-49. • IGNATIUS D. (2011) « Obama’s partnership deficit », Washington Post, 10 juin. • MAZARR M.
Reflecting a racial shift, 78 counties turned majority-minority since 2000 In the United States as a whole, the white share of the population is declining as Hispanic, Asian and black populations grow. But the shift to a more diverse nation is happening more quickly in some places than in others. From 2000 to 2013, 78 counties in 19 states, from California to Kansas to North Carolina, flipped from majority white to counties where no single racial or ethnic group is a majority, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. (Our analysis includes only counties with a minimum population of 10,000 in 2013.) Overall, 266 of these 2,440 counties are less than half white. In 19 of the 25 biggest U.S. counties by population, whites make up less than half of the population. Another way to highlight the nation’s changing demographics is to see how many counties flipped in reverse. For example, in Henry County (pop. 211,000 in 2013), 35 miles south of Atlanta, the population’s white share fell from 80.1% in 2000 to 49.8% in 2013.
Économie des États-Unis Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Les États-Unis sont la première puissance économique mondiale selon le produit intérieur brut (PIB) nominal et la deuxième derrière la Chine selon le PIB à parité de pouvoir d'achat[1]. En 2014, le PIB est de 17 416 milliards de dollars, soit environ un cinquième du PIB mondial. Son État le plus riche, la Californie, serait la huitième puissance économique mondiale si elle était indépendante. Pays industrialisé, aujourd'hui largement tourné vers le secteur tertiaire et misant massivement sur l'innovation, les États-Unis sont également riches en ressources naturelles et un grand exportateur de biens culturels. Le dollar, monnaie de référence à l’échelle mondiale, atténue l'impact monétaire des déficits courants importants, jusqu'à 6 % de leur PIB ce qui soutient la consommation des ménages américains mais endette le pays vis-à-vis de l’étranger. Historique[modifier | modifier le code] Une économie post-industrielle
Interactive: When Do Americans Leave For Work? JavaScript required for interaction.<br /><img src=" In a continued dig into commute data from the American Community Survey (We already saw mode of transportation.), the map above shows when people leave home for work. The rates are for people who have jobs and are 16 years or older. Do we get anything interesting even though it's just one facet of the commute to work? As you'd expect, many commuters leave home between 7:00am and 8:00am. This surprised me. In contrast, commuters are more spread out between 7:00am and 8:30am in other areas. Still, fairly normal. Look at commuting rates during the late night and early morning hours. LaGrange county in Indiana, known for its large Amish population, also has many leave for work during the midnight to 4:59am time slot. There are early-risers everywhere but only a handful of counties where most leave between 6:00am and 6:29am.