Study: Less Growth, Diversity in Memphis -- Demographics Increasingly Define Economic Challenges for Cities, New Report Finds

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WASHINGTON - Memphis is one of 17 majority-minority areas among the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas and is categorized as an "industrial core" metro area, the "most demographically disadvantaged" type, according to a Brookings Institution report to be released this morning.

The report, "The State of Metropolitan America," says the 2000s were a "lost decade" in the sense that the country "lost time and opportunity to respond to the challenges and prospects of its new demographic realities."

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Study: Less Growth, Diversity in Memphis -- Demographics Increasingly Define Economic Challenges for Cities, New Report Finds

Those realities include a spreading out of metro populations, diversification of the population, an aging population, uneven higher educational attainment and i...

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