Amy Liu has been warning about the uneven economic growth occurring in cities across the country for years now. Then Covid struck, and she looked downright prophetic.
As a vice president of the Brookings Institution and director of its Metropolitan Policy Program, she’s watched as many regions have thrived while adding a spate of high-tech jobs. But those gains haven’t included everyone, and she’s been disturbed to see people of color consistently left out of these opportunities and suffering economically as a result.
Liu delivered exactly such a message at the Washington Business Journal’s first-ever Regional Economic Forecast, cautioning attendees that all of Greater Washington would suffer if the region’s economic success left people behind. That was in February 2020 — the world would irrevocably change a month later, bringing all of the issues Liu was already studying to the fore in a way she never could have predicted.
“It’s accelerated all of the trends that existed…
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