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Beyond Red and Blue: How the Tri-State Area Fares in the New National Context

Bruce Katz
Bruce Katz Founding Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab - Drexel University

April 29, 2005

In this speech delivered to the Regional Plan Association of metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, Bruce Katz debunks the conventional wisdom of red-blue America and examines how the Tri-State area should move forward to bolster competitiveness amid demographic and market change.

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