City Notes by Daniel Kay Hertz
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I am a Senior Policy Analyst at the Chicago-based Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, and write about urban issues here and in several other publications, including City Observatory.
City Notes by Daniel Kay Hertz
5y ago
If you had to summarize the demographic changes in the Chicago metro area over the last 30 years in a single statistic, you could do worse than “suburban residents used to be more likely to have a college degree, but now city residents are more likely to.” From the Chicago Federal Reserve:
Of course, though these changes are taking place at a regional scale, their effects are especially visible because they have been concentrated—that is, the additional 20 percentage points’ worth of college-degree-holders living in the city have not spread themselves around, but have segregated in a growing ..read more