Economic Development Futures Journal

Sunday, July 02, 2006

counter statistics

Middle-Income Folks and Middle-Class Neighborhoods: Losing Ground

This does not reflect favorably upon the fruits of our labor in economic development. Listen up.

While middle-income families have declined considerably, middle-class neighborhoods have disappeared even faster in metropolitan areas. The resulting neighborhood disparities create new challenges for enhancing household mobility, improving the delivery of public services, and promoting private-sector investment in struggling locales.

Read more at Brookings here.

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