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How we define "need" for place-based policy reveals where poverty and race intersect. Regardless of the measures used in each classification system for measuring high-need areas, all reveal that poverty is highly spatialized for people of color in a way that it is not for white people, Joanne Kim and Tracy H. Loh explain in a new brief.
Legacy city collaborations offer a path forward during crises. America's legacy cities are bastions of untapped social and human capital waiting to be unleashed. Collaborative solutions are not just "nice-to-have" methods of stabilization and recovery; they are "must-have" methods, Lavea Brachman writes.
Helping distressed communities recover and achieve long-term prosperity. A new report by Timothy J. Bartik proposes federal action through a 10-year block grant aimed at empowering local leaders to narrow the gap in job opportunities between their distressed local labor markets and the national average.
Economic recovery in America's cities. In case you missed it, watch this week's webinar with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on ways to advance an inclusive economic recovery in U.S. cities.
