Metropolitan Fiscal DisparitiesAbstractIn 1990 central-city residents had a median income equivalent to about 74 percent of that earned by suburban residents. The central cities have become home to a disproportionate share of social problems: Their infrastructure is arguably in poorer condition, their unemployment rates higher, and their governments more impoverished than those of the suburbs. The evidence suggests that these conditions have remained the same or worsened over the past 20 years. Urban areas are not all the same, and suburbs are not all wealthy, but it would not be at all misleading to say that America’s poor places have become poorer over the past two decades.Metropolitan Fiscal Disparities (*.pdf, 38 KB)
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