Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
This report contains compilations and calculations of various employment data for males and females 16 to 24 years old by race/ethnicity from 2005 to 2014, comparing Chicago, Illinois, the U.S. and in some instances, adding Los Angeles and New York.
A high proportion of women who receive welfare are abused by their intimate partners.
With cities, the story always seems to be dramatic--either they are dying, becoming irrelevant, going bankrupt; or they are being reborn, cities are on the rise, the return of the downtown.
In recent years some well-known economists and political commentators have characterized cities as economically and politically irrelevant.