writer derek thompson has lived this reality in new york city one of the most expensive on earth. >>eberry -- >> i wanted to figure out why the american dream seemed to be splintering between cities that were upwardly mobile and cities that were affordable. >> for answers thompson turned to the latest national data on cities with the greatest opportunity to move up into the middle class and beyond. versus the cost-of-living. >> the cities that were the best for upward mobility were the wrses for affordability and the cities that were the most a affordable had bad upward mobility. one exception to the rule. >> minneapolis st. paul was clearly at the top. it was the richest city that was exceptional. >> the greater minneapolis st. paul metro area is made up of at least 13 countys and approximately three and a half million people. the latest u.s. census ranks it as having the fifth highest median household income in the country. >> among workers between 18 and 34 it's top ten when it comes to median income it's top ten when it comes to lowest poverty rate when it comes to highest share

cable package, the advantage to cord-cutting may not be all that clear, says "the atlantic's" derek thompsoneven in cutting the cord, they're still gonna be paying $40 a month, say, to time warner just for the internet. >> right. >> reporter: but now you add sling. that's $20 a month, i mean, when you start adding this stuff up, it doesn't look like these cord cutters are gonna be saving any money. they might actually end up spending more money. >> some people are not going to save money. some people surely are going to think that they're beating a system but ironically are going to pay more for it. but there's a lotta people and they're gonna say, "i don't wanna spend $100 a month on entertainment. instead i just want to have netflix." and there you're only spending about $10 a month. >> reporter: there is, however is one wild card to contemplate. what is mostly "streamed" via broadband is more or less traditional, recognizable fare: big-budget dramas like "house of cards," re-packaged tv shows via hulu plus. but craig moffat, who's been analyzing the industry for years, notes that the cord

the journalism in the anyone of the accidental news junky and joining us to discuss it is derek thompson. interesting study. what stood out were two takeaways, people aren't uninterested in news we crave news but we don't get it from regular sources. only 3% get it from national tv. 4% from local tv and 2% from newspapers. more feel go to wikipedia than national tv and the number one source for people is google. 51% get their news from google. did any of this surprise you? >> didn't surprise me by kind but degree. what surprised me was there is an accidental news junky. somebody who isn't interested in the hard news of the day but by fact of the way they are spending so much time on facebook, there is this expertise without opening up the news. >> because there senl 140 characters. >> if you want "the new york times," go to the new york times times. but if you are on facebook everybody is trying to find you. you don't have to take the extra step of figuring out more. >> so let's talk about what kind of quote, unquote news is being consumed. you have the top 15 most engaging articles acco

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