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Alan Berube, Audrey Singer and William Frey Comment on the State of Metropolitan America

May 9, 2010

The State of Metropolitan America is a signature effort of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program that portrays the demographic and social trends shaping the nation’s essential economic and societal units—its large metropolitan areas—and discusses what they imply for public policies to secure prosperity for these places and their populations.

Report contributors Alan BerubeAudrey Singer and William Frey discuss various aspects of America’s demographic and metropolitan transformation over the last decade. The report is accompanied by an interactive data map.

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