The board tagged a higher overall population, greater burdens associated with chronic health conditions and obesity, growing racial gaps in academic achievement, a rising jail population, loss of farmland, higher housing costs and increased public health care spending as high-certainty, high-impact trends.
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Brookings metro scholar offers broad-brush look at Asheville
Robert Puentes, a Metropolitan Fellow with the Brookings Institution, addressed a gathering hosted by the Asheville Downtown Association at UNCA’s Reuter Center Monday evening.