Can the Biden Agenda Fix Middle Americaâs Deepest Problem?
One key economic goal is to create the virtuous cycles of innovation and jobs that already occur in many coastal cities.
A farm near Allen, Neb., last year. In much of the middle of the country, population loss and economic decline have fed on each other, a cycle the Biden administration hopes to break. Credit...Brian Lehmann for The New York Times
May 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Last week, the Census Bureau said that the last decadeâs population growth was the slowest in generations. Also last week, President Biden addressed Congress and laid out a wide-ranging, multi-trillion dollar economic agenda.