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Economic Renaissance or Fleeting Recovery? Left-Behind Counties See Boom in Jobs and Businesses Amid Widening Divides
August 5, 2024 /
It’s almost a truism among demographers these days that there are two kinds of counties in America — the rich ones along the coasts that create most of the jobs and generate most of the revenue, and the struggling ones in the middle that have been hemorrhaging both jobs and population for the past decade or more.
So it was a bit of a surprise, to say the least, to come upon a rich new set of data from the nonpartisan Economic Innovation Group that tells a much more complicated story. EIG looked at 972 counties that it classified as “left behind” and found that they have experienced a modest comeback over the last several years.
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