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Five Lessons from Leading Innovators on Confronting Suburban Poverty
In September we reported that suburbs in our nation’s largest metro areas had seen their poor population grow by 66 percent since 2000, making them home to the largest and fastest growing poor...
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Some cities are still more unequal than others—an update
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The growing distance between people and jobs in metropolitan America
Proximity to employment can influence a range of economic and social outcomes, from local fiscal health to the employment prospects of residents, particularly low-income and minority workers. An...
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Where the rich get richer, the poor often don't
Our latest report on income inequality in cities finds that the gap between the rich and poor across the 50 largest cities continued to grow, albeit slightly, from 2012 to 2013. In general, both high-...
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Concentrated poverty in New Orleans 10 years after Katrina
The death and massive displacement that Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levee failures caused in New Orleans 10 years ago caused many Americans at the time to ask: How could this happen? How could so...
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Setting the right economic development goals is hard work
Amy Liu’s recent paper, “Remaking Economic Development,” is disruptive in that it rightfully undercuts the shaky foundation of what draws many practitioners to the field: the idea that success is...
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