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Airports: Where the Jobs Are
17 percent of American workers work within 10 miles of a major airport.
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Maps
To Get America Growing Again, We Have to Look to Our Most Productive Metro Areas
The United States is not just as a single national economy but a collection of city and metro economies, and they're growing at starkly different rates.
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Democracy in America
2012 Ballot Initiatives: Local Winners and Losers
A cities-focused look at the outcome of key state and local ballot initiatives.
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Map of the Day: Where Water Bills Have Tripled
The cost of water has risen much more in some places than in others.
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Urban Wonk
The Next Big Financial Crisis That Could Cripple Cities
Pension pay-outs are a ticking time bomb.
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Charts
The Tragic Geography of Disconnected Youth
One in seven young Americans are neither working nor going to school.
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Foreclosure Crisis Opens and Closes a Treasure Trove of Parks
With one of the nation's highest foreclosure rates, Atlanta thought it had found the perfect opportunity to build more parks.
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Maps
America's Leading College Towns
Mapping the metros with the largest share and largest number of college students.
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Charts
Is a VMT Tax a Good Idea?
San Francisco is the latest city to consider a vehicle-miles traveled fee system.
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Charts
The World Cities That Tweet the Most
Jakarta bests New York and L.A. as well as Tokyo, London, and São Paulo, according to a recent study.
