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America’s male employment crisis is both urban and rural
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, many analysts have interpreted Donald Trump’s victory as the product of economic anxiety among the white working class—particularly in the smaller towns...
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These communities have a lot at stake in Trump’s executive order on immigration
President Trump’s executive order banning travel to the United States for 90 days from seven predominantly Muslim countries—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—and suspending refugee...
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Metro Monitor – 2017
METRO MONITOR An index of inclusive economic growth in the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas As 2017 begins, the economy is, by most conventional measures, in remarkable condition. After years of...
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Sanctuary cities and Trump’s executive order
THE ISSUE: President Trump recently issued an executive order to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities, which are local jurisdictions that attempt to limit their cooperation with...
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Homeland security memos on immigration enforcement
THE ISSUE: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently issued new guidelines for how to implement the Trump administration’s executive order on immigration, greatly broadening the criteria for...
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Three maps that show how US metro economies are doing
The U.S. economy is now in its 93rd consecutive month of growth, the third longest expansion on record. It has added jobs for 76 straight months, at a robust pace of 200,000 jobs per month. The...
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On Trump’s sanctuary cities executive order
Alan Berube, senior fellow and deputy director at the Metropolitan Policy Program, breaks down why the federal court ruling temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order on sanctuary cities. Related...
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The surprisingly short list of US metro areas achieving inclusive economic...
In research and strategy circles around economic growth and development, the concept of “inclusive growth” is all the rage Internationally, organizations including the OECD, World Bank, World Economic...
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Fragility, resilience, and security of 21st century cities
For the first time in history, more people live in urban settlements than outside of them. The concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities creates many possibilities for tackling some of the...
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Metro area unemployment trends buck the national narrative: A story of...
There has been a lot of talk recently about regional divergence in the American economy and what to do for places left behind, especially in the industrial Heartland. Judging by one important economic...
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