Very interesting new report about how America's economic geography has changed since the great recession: https://eig.org/news/new-study-shows-how-recovery-from-the-great-recession-transformed-the-geography-of-u-s-economic-well-being … Short version: Places with lots of skilled workers are doing great, other places aren't. But more people are moving to the former, which is good.
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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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How do we know it isn't reverse causation? Prosperous places are far more likely to attract educated workers AND to produce them...
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This is a bit disturbing list in that sense: some of these communities are home to major universities. What are they doing about their communities?pic.twitter.com/OC4zUkpm6m
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'Skilled workers' might be describing rather than explaining spatial economic disparity.
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Also (and importantly) people always move to wealthier places, particularly in the US, but always too slowlyhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343404.2013.837999?src=recsys&journalCode=cres20 …
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