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Title: Sustaining Strong Communities On Maryland's Eastern Shore

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Maryland’s Eastern Shore is a place with significant assets including natural beauty, productive farmland, and an iconic seafood industry. The region also faces significant challenges—some that would be familiar to residents of any other part of Maryland, and some that stem from the region’s distinctive geography and development patterns. The Eastern Shore’s labor market is characterized by higher unemployment and lower wages than other parts of the state. Partly as a result, families in the region are more likely to struggle to afford the basics. Parts of the Shore lack adequate numbers of health care providers and require residents to travel long distances for care, even in the event of a medical emergency. Finally, while the threat of climate change looms over our entire state, it is already a dangerous reality for many of the Eastern Shore’s coastal communities. Actions—or in some cases inaction—by the federal government could exacerbate each one of these challenges. State policymakers as well as local governments on the Eastern Shore must make important choices in responding . . .

Url: http://www.mdeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MDCEP_EasternShore_2018_FNL2lo.pdf

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Authors: Meyer, Christopher

Publisher: Maryland Center on Economic Policy

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other

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