The State of Metro America: Key Trends for the Future

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Course Overview

Title:
The State of Metro America: Key Trends for the Future
Type:
Webinar
Cost:
$19.95
Originally Broadcast On:
May 05, 2010
Time Estimate:
One hour for the main presentation and questions. Sometimes presenters stay longer to answer additional questions from participants.

This Webinar is sponsored by the Brookings Institution which allows us to offer a $15 off promo code to participants. Use this code PBRKMET10 during checkout. You'll then pay $4.95. Of course, if you can afford the full price, you’ll be helping support Poynter and its e-learning project, NewsU.

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Metropolitan areas take up only 12 percent of our land mass, but they harbor two-thirds of our population and generate 75 percent of our gross domestic product. The demographics of America's cities and suburbs can forecast our nation's future and highlight the challenges that we may face.

Get a sneak peek at the key demographic trends that define and shape the nation with this Webinar that unveils The Brookings Institution’s “State of Metropolitan America.” This one-hour Webinar will help you understand national trends in immigration, race and ethnicity, aging, education, poverty and the effects to your community. Plus, participants will get an advance copy of the report, which will officially be released May 11, 2010. The report is embargoed for release until Midnight May 11.

You'll also get a first-hand look at State of Metropolitan America's interactive map. The tool will provide access to visual displays of more than 300 indicators for the nation’s 50 states, 100 largest metropolitan areas, and their cities and suburbs.

This Webinar is sponsored by the Brookings Institution which allows us to offer a $15 off promo code to participants. Use this code PBRKMET10 during checkout. You'll then pay $4.95. Of course, if you can afford the full price, you’ll be helping support Poynter and its e-learning project, NewsU.

What Will I Learn:
  • The five “new realities” American society faces
  • Why metropolitan areas are on the front lines of these trends, and what national, regional and local leaders must do to address them
  • The effects of the housing crash in the late 2000s
  • Which metropolitan area passed Chicago in the 2000s to house the second-largest African-American population nationwide
  • Why the population would still be increasingly non-white even if immigration stopped today
  • Where Baby Boomers are settling
  • Why young adults may be less highly educated than their parents' generation
  • What impact the Great Recession might have on the poverty rate in metropolitan areas
  • Where more than four-in-five commuters drive alone to work each day
Who Should Take this Course:

Journalists across all platforms who want to tell a story about how their cities and suburbs are changing and how they are growing, and educators who teach how to cover these key issues. This Webinar is also for opinion writers, bloggers and others who want to understand the demographic trends in our nation’s largest metro areas and what these indicators mean for our metros’ social and economic future.

Course Instructor:

Alan Berube

Alan Berube is a senior fellow and research director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. A former policy advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department, he is an expert on metropolitan demographics, low-wage workers, and urban poverty. His Brookings publications include: “MetroNation: How US Metro Areas Fuel American Prosperity,” “Getting Current: Recent Demographic Trends in Metropolitan America,” Metro Raise: Boosting the Earned Income Tax Credit to Help Metropolitan Workers and Families,” and “Finding Exurbia: America’s Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolitan Fringe.”

Sponsor:

The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct high-quality, independent research and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations that advance three broad goals:

  • Strengthen American democracy;
  • Foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans and
  • Secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.

Brookings is proud to be consistently ranked as the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tank.

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