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This chapter reviews the methods and metrics that have been developed to chart the growth of the Creative Economy and the Creative Class, to chart its geography, and to assess its impacts on economic growth and economic inequality. From 1900 to 2019, the Creative Economy’s share of the U.S. workforce more than tripled from 10 percent to 31 percent, with traditional Working-Class occupations (e.g., production and manufacturing) decreasing in the United States over the same period. Looking across U.S. metropolitan areas, some regions (e.g., San Jose, Boulder, Boston) have more than 40 percent of the workforce in Creative Economy occupations while other places (e.g., Las Vegas, Youngstown, OH) have Creative Economy employment shares of less than 25 percent. Analyzing US metropolitan areas with 1 million or more people, there is a strong relationship between per-capita incomes and Creative Economy employment shares, but a relatively low correlation between employment growth and specializing in Creative Economy occupations. U.S. metropolitan areas that rank high for the Creative Economy also tend to have greater economic inequality and other negative aspects of the New Urban Crisis.
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