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Move over, Muncie: Five Indiana cities could lose status as metro areas
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Move over, Muncie. Take a powder, Terre Haute.
Those Hoosier cities are two of 144 that the federal government is proposing to downgrade from the metropolitan statistical area designation, and it could be more than just a matter of semantics. Officials in some of the affected cities worry that the change could have adverse implications for federal funding and economic development.
Under the new proposal, a metro area would have to have at least 100,000 people in its core city to count as an MSA, double the 50,000-person threshold that has been in place for the past 70 years.