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What his research has shown is that advanced degrees and advanced skills de not enable a person to earn more money in most areas of the nation as it did in 1970. Only in some areas called “means metros” can these skills produce an economic advantage for the worker. So educated and skilled people are abandoning many areas like Detroit or Cleveland for areas like New York City, Seattle or Austin—the means metros.


Richard M. Daley
Richard M. Daley
  • Born: April 24, 1942
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Richard Michael Daley is an American politician who served as the 54th Mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 to 2011. Daley was elected mayor in 1989 and was reelected five times until declining to run for a seventh term. At 22 years, his was the longest tenure in Chicago mayoral history, surpassing the 21-year stay of his father, Richard J. Daley.