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 are cool interactive maps to go along with the report:https://eig.org/dci#
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@LettieriDC, who is doing great work on struggling places.1 reply 0 retweets 11 likesShow this thread -
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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Rural America continues to languish.pic.twitter.com/A0iEjI6C4C
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Business is really concentrating in the good areas.pic.twitter.com/hemhUlBplz
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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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Educated workers, educated workers, educated workers...pic.twitter.com/4kZNTMxhoE
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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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In that the individual distressed places are each mixed, or that there are distressed places with lots of white people, others with lots of black people, etc.?
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Probably the former, but this doesn't show that.
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