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A 5 page review of the 2007 document by Jennifer Vey and the Brookings Institute. The economic status of sixty five of Americas older industrial cities is accessed and a plan presented for their future. No additional sources are listed.
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at 302 older industrial cities and the economic and social problems that plague them. These problems relate to the loss of businesses and jobs these cities have experience, losses
that have resulted in adverse impacts to the economic stability of those that live there. Vey (2007) provides much more than a simply
list of cities and a summary of their problems, however. She provides a comprehensive inventory of these cities and an empirical analysis of the many factors that indicate either
the presence or lack of economic health and vitality. The cities Vey (2007) analyzes are characterized in accordance with demographic data from either
1990 or 2000 and: 1. had populations of at least 50,000 people (and constituted the largest city in their respective metropolitan areas)
or 2. contained at least fifty percent of the largest city in the metropolitan area, or 3. had populations of 150,000 or more.
The relative economic and social health of these cities was evaluated using eight economic indicators. These indicators included economic growth in the 1990s and economic well being
of the city residents in 2000 (Vey, 2007). Two indices of economic health were created using data on increases in employment, annual payroll, and the number of establishments as
well as on poverty rate, per capita income, unemployment rate, median household income, and labor force participation (Vey, 2007). These indices of economic health were City Economic Condition and
Residential Economic Well-Being, each used to rank the cities in accordance with their relative scores. Cities ranked in the top third of the total number of cities were considered
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