America is a suburban country and urban America is still losing population. Today about three-quarters of all Americans live in metropolitan areas. Two-thirds of them - in other words, about half the nation's population - live in suburbs. Furthermore, in every region of the country - even where city population are increasing - the fastest-growing parts of the metropolitan areas are the surrounding suburbs. During the 1980's, for example, Los Angeles grew by 17.4%, while its suburbs grew by 29.5%. Baltimore lost 6.4% of its population while its suburbs grew by 16.5%. Between 1970 and 1990, Chicago was loosing 17% of its population as its suburbs gained 24%.

Furthermore, in fact the suburbs dominate

politics. The number of Congressmembers who represent cities is declining, while the number who represent suburbs is increasing. For example, in 1992,when the riots in Los Angeles occured, the House had 98 urban districts, 170 suburban districts, and 88 rural districts; the rest were a mix of urban-suburban or rural-suburban populations. Of course, members of Congress who present "suburban" areas may be personally sympathetic to the plight of the central cities,but it does not mean they will vote to spend their constituents' tax dollars to alleviate urban problems.

In 1992 was made an experiment to compare the employment and educational outcomes of the city movers with the suburban movers. Was found that women who moved to the suburbs were 28% more likely to be employed than the women who moved inside the city, on average 5.5 years after moving. This was true even though the wage gains attributed to the move were the same for all women who worked, regardless of their location. In addition, he found that 9 years (on average) after the move, the children of the suburban movers were doing significantly better than the children of the city movers. Although criminal activity was not measured, the children of the suburban movers dropped out of high school only 25% as often as the city movers, were in college track courses 1.6 times as often as the city movers, were 2.5 times as likely to attend college, were more than 4 times as likely to earn $6.50 an hour if working, and only 38% as likely to be unemployed. These results suggest that for children in these environments, relocation can be an effective tool to change their focus towards positive outcomes like meaningful employment.

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