In a column appearing on April 29 on Bloomberg Opinion, Noah Smith describes work by Upjohn senior economist Tim Bartik who proposes three policies for helping struggling manufacturing-intensive communities -- infrastructure, education, and extension services.
Also of interest: "Building Shared Prosperity: How Communities Can Create Good Jobs for All." This Upjohn Institute report outlines strategies that small and medium-sized cities, along with rural areas, can follow to achieve broadly shared prosperity.