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America&;#039;s poorer counties are new investment boomtowns: study
There's an unprecedented building boom underway in America. With it has come a less-noticed phenomenon: a surge of investment into communities left behind in the last economic expansion.
Why it matters: Poorer counties with lower employment rates have attracted a large share of the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated for clean energy projects‚ semiconductor mega-factories and more.
If sustained‚ the investment surge has the potential to help reshape local economies — a sharp...