Monday, February 4, 2008
News Don't forget your vote's importance, Atlanta
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 8:30 PM
Why? From an article by two thinkers at the Brookings Institution about Chicago's woes:
Collectively, the top 100 metros take up only 12 percent of the land in the United States, but account for an astounding 65 percent of our population, 68 percent of jobs and 75 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. If talented people, quality jobs, innovative firms, advanced universities, planes, trains and, of course, money make the world go round — well, then metro regions are the axis.
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