Bloomberg and Urban Population Centers
By Azi Paybarah
Yesterday on CNN, Michael Bloomberg made the case for spending federal money "at the city level, not at the state level" because, in part, that's where the people are.
"Eighty-five percent of people in this country live in cities and we’ve got to get some money down there," Bloomberg said.
A reader skeptical of that figure emailed a link to a 2002 Census report saying about half of the U.S. population currently lives in "suburban" areas.
The U.S. population grew increasingly metropolitan
each decade, from 28 percent in 1910 to 80 percent in 2000. Suburbs, rather than central cities, accounted for most of the metropolitan growth. By 2000, half of the U.S. population lived in suburban areas."
A spokesman for the mayor explained that he was referring to "metropolitan areas," which include cities and suburbs.
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Metropolitan areas are more populated
You are right that most of people lives in metropolitan areas.so it's important to spend money where most of people lives.So we should try to understand this reality.
Metropolitan areas are more populated
You are right that most of people lives in metropolitan areas.so it's important to spend money where most of people lives.So we should try to understand this reality.
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