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Policy Implications
Pages 51-54

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... Policy Implications After a careful review of recent data on demographic, economic, and governmental conditions and trends in urban areas, the committee identified three sets of issues with major policy implications. URBAN POVERTY The evidence that poverty is increasing in central cities in the midst of economic recovery raises the issue that is most troubling
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From page 52...
... This bifurcation of jobs and residents, if it is confirmed by further research, would have major implications for public policy because cities would not be able to carry out one of their traditional functions, that of assimilating poor immigrants into the economy. One policy approach to the problem of increasing urban poverty would be to encourage, or at least not discourage, the migration of unemployed individuals to areas with job opportunities, although the history of past attempts to relocate workers indicates that this may not be promising.
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From page 53...
... They may not in all cases be able to reduce expenditures as quickly as revenues, especially if the needed decline in population is slow in coming or the remaining population includes more poor, or both, which is usually the case. In addition, worsened fiscal conditions may mean that local jurisdictions will provide less than optimal levels of such public goods as local human capital investment in education and training.
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From page 54...
... Local physical infrastructure vital to human capital development is especially important, yet the data on school and other local public facilities are very poor compared with those on so-called national infrastructure systems, such as streets and mass transit. More research is needed regarding the adequacy of local capital facilities.
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