Tracking Metropolitan America Into The 21st Century
17 November 2004 - 8:00am
An overhaul of the widely-recognized metropolitan classification system by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will refashion the both research and federal spending.
The new system, designed to capture 21st-century settlement patterns, alters the names, types, and boundaries for metropolitan areas and creates new "micropolitan" areas.
Source:
The Brookings Institution, October 25, 2005
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