The Geography of Jobs

TIP Strategies has produced a compelling visualization of the job gains and losses in metropolitan areas throughout the country over the past 5 years.
Click here to view the animation of the geography of jobs in metropolitan areas

The Slate Group has produced a similar visualization of job gains and losses in counties over the past 3 [...]

New Report: U.S. Metros Propel America’s Economy and Might Drive Its Recovery

Researchers from the Brookings Institution recently released a new article arguing there is a  mismatch between our nation’s policies and economic reality.  According to the authors, policymakers have failed to realize that the American economy is not a national economy, or even a collection of 50 state economies, but rather, is composed of 363 distinct metropolitan [...]

Definition of Economic Clusters

The term “economic cluster” at its most basic level refers to a group of firms that profit from their association with one another. These firms share certain types of inputs or outputs (e.g., raw materials, labor force, or customers), and within a cluster some firms will typically have close purchasing and sales links while others [...]

Definition of Income Inequality

Income inequality describes the extent to which income is distributed unevenly among residents of an area. High levels of inequality indicate that a small number of people receive most of the total income, and that most people receive only a small share of the total. Inequality can be a barrier to social cohesion and democratic [...]

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