Millennials May Be In the Cities, But Numbers Say That The Jobs Aren't
Here's something I hadn't thought of- if you pay any attention to transportation, community development or economic development issues, you've been hearing over and over lately that more and more young people are moving to the heart of the city to live where they can be part of the action and not need a car. The problem?
This article from Salon says, while the millennials may be in the cities, the jobs aren't.
New statistics show that, in all but nine of the largest 100 U.S. metro areas, the share of employment located downtown declined during the first decade of the millennium. So where are the jobs going? And will they come back? Read the article.
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SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
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