MetroMonitor, a quarterly report on America’s 100 largest metropolitan centers, offers a detailed regional examination of economic trends. 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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Commentary
MetroMonitor: An Uneven Economic Recovery
September 15, 2009