Jobs have moved back into the city.

Over the past few years, not a week has gone by without some newspaper's business section announcing a big corporation moving its headquarters from the suburbs into the city. In January of 2016, General Electric announced it was moving its headquarters from the town of Fairfield, Connecticut, into Boston proper. In June of 2016, McDonald's announced it was moving its headquarters from suburban Oak Brook into Chicago's West Town neighborhood. ... Laptop computers and smartphones have allowed for work to be done remotely; the Millennial generation—who corporations are trying to hire and sell to—enjoy living in cities more than the suburbs; digitization has emptied out filing cabinets and libraries.

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As illustrated in another report co-authored by Kneebone, "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America," suburbia is now home to the largest- and fastest-growing poor population in the country. ... "Concentrated poverty has become an increasingly suburban challenge," Kneebone says. "Think about connecting low-income people to economic opportunities. It's concerning to see the growing emergence of distressed neighborhoods further out, in regions where it can be harder to connect them to those opportunities."