That’s the finding of Losing Ground: Income and Poverty in Upstate New York, 1980-2000, a Brookings Institution report released earlier this fall by Cornell University City and Regional Planning Professors Rolf Pendall and Susan Christopherson. The pair found that taxes and other basic costs are rising here, while wages fail to reach national averages. Poverty […]
Susan Christopherson
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Ailing in Upstate
It’s no secret that Upstate New York has seen better days. Our population is aging, and its growth is all but stagnant. Manufacturing jobs that once drove the nation’s economy have been leaving for a generation now. The Information Age opportunities that were supposed to follow them haven’t materialized, or at least not in the […]
