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Can the Biden Agenda Fix Middle America’s Deepest Problem? One key economic goal is to create the virtuous cycles of innovation and jobs that already occur in many coastal cities. A farm near Allen, Neb., last year. In much of the middle of the country, population loss and economic decline have fed on each other, a cycle the Biden administration hopes to break. Credit...Brian Lehmann for The New York Times May 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Last week, the Census Bureau said that the last decade�...

Worst Spot for U.S. Brain Drain Gets Hope as Vaccine Hub Bloomberg 1/12/2021 Vincent Del Giudice and Wei Lu (Bloomberg) -- The old factory town of Kalamazoo, Michigan, has become a center for Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing. That may help the area’s economy turn a corner after some tough years. Ranked highest in this year’s Bloomberg Brain Drain Index of population loss of top talent, Kalamazoo has struggled like the rest of the U.S. with the job-crushing pandemic. But the ...

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Tech, Energy, and Tourism Drive Success for Top-Performing Cities December 15, 2020 GMT (PRNewsfoto/Heartland Forward) BENTONVILLE, Ark., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Heartland Forward published a new report, “Most Dynamic Metropolitan Regions,” that ranks 375 U.S. metropolitans by their economic performance. Midland, Texas, the capital of the oil-rich Permian basin, placed first for the seco...