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Are Big College Towns the Key to the American Dream?
ALMA MATTERS
While everywhere else suffered in the recession, this new urban species somehow kept unemployment, costs of living, and crime rates down. What we can learn from ‘University Cities.’
Jonathan Miller
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Oct. 10 2015
12:01AM EDT
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