The Shape Of The Curve

5 August 2004 - 6:00am

Not all cities lost middle-class households in past 20 years.

A new analysis of census data by Alan Berube and Thacher Tiffany shows that middle-class households did not abandon American cities in the 1980s and 1990s, but most locations lack the nation's full income diversity.

Source: The Brookings Institution, October 25, 2005
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