Did COVID-19 Finally Doom Big Cities?
Poverty In cities, the poverty rate is more than double that of the suburbs. According to a 2000 Harvard study, “[ …], 19.9 percent of the population in the central cities of MSAs [Metropolitan Statistical Areas] lived in poverty, compared with just 7.5 percent of the population in suburbs.” Why do the poor flock to cities, especially in periods of economic downturn? A reason is that the urban public transportation and density of businesses means they don’t have to commute far to find w...
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