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Causes: Alliances & Advocacy, Arts & Culture, Environment, Population Studies, Research Institutes & Public Policy Analysis
Mission: In 2000, two of every three Wisconsin residents lived in one of its urban centers. People move to, and stay in, cities and their suburbs because they offer economic, cultural, educational and recreational opportunity. But the way these regions have grown has hurt all parts of the state's metropolitan areas. Older communities face growing poverty and declining tax base, while bedroom communities are struggling to build the schools, roads, parks and sewers their new residents require. The situation was documented in a February, 2002 study, Wisconsin Metropatterns, by Myron Orfield and Thomas Luce, financed by the Joyce Foundation. Participants in a grassroots follow-up recommended economic development, planning, governmental service delivery and taxation on a regional level to remedy the situation that Orfield and Luce found, grow Wisconsin's economy, improve the environment, conserve threatened farmland and save taxpayers huge sums in the process. See http://www.wiscities.org/metrorpt.htm on our parent organization's web site.
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