'Trump has appealed to those who are the most fearful... but the situation hasn’t gotten any better since his election. Rural America is older, sicker, poorer and more dependent upon state aid than it was before,' writes RexNutting
Since the economy began adding jobs after the Great Recession nine years ago, about 21.5 million jobs have been created in the United States, the second-best stretch of hiring in the nation’s history, second only to the 1990s.
Twelve are megacities : Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco and Washington. Donald Trump has appealed to those who are the most fearful, the most resentful and the most despairing, but the situation hasn’t gotten any better since his election. Rural America is older, sicker, poorer and more dependent upon state aid than it was before.The divide between the superstar metros and everyone else has widened further in the past year or two.
Cities have problems, too The cities have their own problems, of course. They have growth, but also lots of inequality. The gap between the richest family and the poorest is much wider than in the country. Globalization has pushed commodity prices down, so rural areas receive less revenue for what they do produce. Concentration of business ownership in large nationwide corporations means that the profits, which used to stay local, are now sent across the country to the owners and shareholders who live in cities.
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