Urban American vs. the rest of the country

Axios

• Roughly half of all U.S. zip codes still have lower total employment than they did in 2007, while the top 20% of zip codes have added 3.6 million jobs, per John Lettieri of the Economic Innovation Group. That’s more than the economy as a whole.
• Rural Americans have far fewer hospitals, workout facilities and health specialists, feeding a rise in obesity and disabilities.
• Big employers and better technology makes cities magnets for better teachers, schools and specialized training.
• Big media companies, almost all located in cities, are getting bigger. The flip-side: 500+ newspapers have been closed or merged in non-metro communities since 2004.
• Telling stat: Donald Trump carried 2,584 counties to Hillary Clinton’s 472. But the counties she carried accounted for nearly two-thirds of U.S. economic output, per the Brookings Institution.