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 work. According to the Brookings Institute, between 2000 and 2015 people living below the poverty lin...