Can the NYT Get Its Columnists to Move to Using Data?

Arthur Brooks, the the president of the American Enterprise Institute, used his NYT column to complain that people in the United States were not moving enough. He argues that people were reluctant to move from depressed areas of the country to the growing areas which offer more opportunities. Ironically, his examples of prosperous areas and sectors were based on badly outdated information.

Brooks tells readers:

"We might expect movement from a high-unemployment state like Mississippi (unempl...