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What is a Gateway City?

What is a Gateway City?. The Massachusetts Gateway Cities are a group of 24 former industrial Massachusetts mill cities.

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What is a Gateway City?

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  1. What is a Gateway City? • The Massachusetts Gateway Cities are a group of 24 former industrial Massachusetts mill cities. • Gateway Cities have a population between 35,000 and 250,000, with an average household income below the state average and an average educational attainment rate (Bachelor's or above) below the state average.

  2. Insert Tim’s map of gateway cities vs lowest income cities

  3. Equitable development is best for the Commonwealth of MA. If you add up the populations of the gateway cities, it is a similar size as the city of Detroit. It has similar poverty statistics as well.

  4. Job Creation 1970-2007

  5. In many cities, nearly half of all residents are poor or working poor Ratio of income to poverty, 2007-2010 Source: American Community Survey

  6. Many Gateway City students aren’t finishing high school Four-Year Graduation Rate, 2010 Source: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

  7. Gateway City residents have not received the education they will need to succeed Percent of Population Age 25 with Bachelor’s Degree or Higher Source: American Community Survey

  8. Gateway City home values continue to slide Percent Change in home values, 2010 - 2011 Source: zillow.com

  9. A major study in 2010 by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston sought to factor out local inefficiencies and determine the proper cost of services in each municipality, and then to balance it against each municipality’s ability to raise money on its own. The places with by far the biggest gaps between what they must spend and what they can raise were smaller urban areas, with Springfield, New Bedford, Fall River, Lowell, Lynn, Worcester, and Brockton all ahead of Boston in the size of their gaps. The study found that already complicated local aid formulas have been further scrambled by reductions in certain programs but not others. The net effect, according to the Fed report, was “deep and uneven’’ cuts that burdened many of the gateway cities far more than Boston or the suburbs. (From a Nov 28, 2010 Boston Globe Editorial)

  10. Reasons to consider a Gateway Cities organizing agenda… • It’s who we are • There is a big opportunity…there is a buzz around this, clear statistics, policy ideas, and a state legislative caucus. We could take this to another level! • Through organizing together we build power to change these trends and write a new story for our cities

  11. In the face of injustice…we organize!

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