And here are cool interactive maps to go along with the report:https://eig.org/dci#
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A bit of good news: People are moving from economically bad places to economically good places, though probably too slowly.pic.twitter.com/1uQb1RF9LN
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What separates the good places from the bad places? Educated workers, of course.pic.twitter.com/PmxUePCArX
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And, here's the racial breakdown. Nothing too surprising here. Note that the distressed places are pretty racially mixed, while the prosperous places are about 75% white.pic.twitter.com/8w4dJyqoHd
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And here is the full report: https://eig.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-DCI.pdf … (end)
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The places doing best economically are the same people whose vote will count the least?
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The latter does not seem to be a good thing: only the people who can "afford" to move (defined broadly) are moving presumably, accelerating geographic polarization further. In a sense, Senate malapportionment is a good thing in this regard... 1/
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If it forces people to see the geographic disparity in reocovery. But if, instead, if people insist that they should be ignored b/c there aren't many people there anyways, things will get worse at least in the medium term in the political realm. 2/
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“But more people are moving to the former, which is good.” Maybe for the economy. But for the makeup of the Senate and (to a lesser degree) the House, no.
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"Grapes ofWrath" study.... another study of the waves of poverty in US
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I guess those communities losing skilled people would benefit by making up the loss in volume, by importing more unskilled workers.
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Real glad to see the mobility pick up. I was wondering what the heck it would take, and was favoring some government-aided relocation packages.
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My state is not one where I think there are not many skilled workers & yet we had the lowest unemployment rate during the 2008 recession & went relatively unscathed. We have issues with state budgets after the legislature needlessly reduced income taxes, but growth was steady.
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