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From Great Recession to Great Reshuffling
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From Great Recession to Great Reshuffling

Charting a Decade of Change Across American Communities

EIG, 2018

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Since the Great Recession, much attention has focused on the widening financial disparities evident across the United States. Indeed, many geographic areas have experienced roaring comebacks, while others have suffered greater economic pain. The Economic Innovation Group pinpoints the nature and extent of those gaps in this robust and accessible analysis of American communities by postal code. Though much of what the study finds may not be new, it bolsters the idea that the diverging fortunes of US neighborhoods threaten the future of the overall economy.

Take-Aways

  • The US recovery from the Great Recession has reshaped the composition and prosperity of American communities, according to the Distressed Communities Index.
  • Aggregations of postal zip-code results into quintiles denote five levels of economic success, from “prosperous,” “comfortable” and “mid-tier,” to “at risk” and “distressed” at the bottom.
  • The prosperous quintile is mostly in the West and the North, and tends to be more suburban. The distressed group is more prevalent in the South and the East, and in rural and urban locales.

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The Economic Innovation Group is a think tank and advocate for entrepreneurialism.


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