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November 16, 2009
Despite reports that the economy is recovering from the recession, there will likely be large-scale city government layoffs, deep cuts to local government services and halted or delayed capital projects in the next year or two. Mark Muro, policy...
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June 11, 2008
The Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution recently launched an ambitious, multi-year initiative to promote the health and vitality of America's urban clusters. In these presentations, Bruce Katz and Rob Puentes present policy...
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November 15, 2009
Despite the economy’s expansion last quarter, many American workers still lack jobs, the confidence to spend money or a home to call their own. Brookings scholars have been tracking data on various dimensions of national and international...
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October 07, 2009
While air travel has made the globe and the nation more accessible, simply flying from one state to the next is often fraught with delayed flights, runway congestion and a host of other problems. Robert Puentes, an author of a new report on air...
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September 15, 2009
Alan Berube, research director of Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy program, says the second MetroMonitor shows an uneven recovery, that economic gains in some regions of the country have been offset by an increase of financial instability in others.
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July 09, 2009
Public housing has long been criticized as a breeding ground for concentrated poverty, under-achieving schools and for its lack of access to services. Bruce Katz says that President Obama's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, an expansion of HOPE...
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June 16, 2009
When it comes to the U.S. economy, not all areas of the country are created equal. A new Metropolitan Policy Program report on the health of America’s metropolitan economies reveals that different parts of the country are experiencing the...
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July 21, 2008
A new Metropolitan Policy Program report states that parts of Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado are becoming new urban centers with bright futures. But, they also face many challenges. Mark Muro, policy director for the Metropolitan...
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December 16, 2008
Metropolitan Policy Program Fellow Robert Puentes explains the historic trends that have reduced the nation’s “driving footprint” and urges a new vision that reflects the realities of Americans staying out of their cars.
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July 22, 2009
As part of a new “Brookings Immigration Series,” Audrey Singer describes the new geography of immigration in the United States. She discusses how many more states and municipalities have a stake in the passage of federal immigration reform.
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