Cities have stopped providing middle-class work

Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 09:30 in Psychology & Sociology

The great U.S. economic boom after World War II was an urban phenomenon. Tens of millions of Americans flocked to cities to work and forge a future in the nation’s middle class. And for a few decades, living in the big city paid off. By 1980, four-year college graduates in the most urban quartile of […]

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