article_snippet: A new study from the Brookings Institution says the number of jobs within a typical commute distance for residents in major metro areas of the U.S. fell by 7% between 2000 and 2012.
article_snippet: Despite trends that indicate a greater desire for millennials to live in dense urban areas, suburbs are still doing well, according to some researchers.
article_snippet: Employers have tended to move toward the suburbs, away from city cores -- and away from many workers, A new Brookings study says.
article_snippet: Moreover, even if you already live in the suburbs, it doesn't mean you live close to the suburb where the jobs are.
article_snippet: Suburban residents saw the number of jobs within a typical commute distance drop by 7%, more than twice the decline experienced by the typical city resident (3%)," Elizabeth Kneebone and Natalie Holmes wrote in A new Brookings study's summary.
article_snippet: Residents of high-poverty and majority-minority neighborhoods experienced particularly pronounced declines in job proximity," Residents of high-poverty and majority-minority neighborhoods wrote, observing that 61% of high-poverty tracts and 55% of majority-minority neighborhoods experienced declines in job proximity between 2000 and 2012.
article_snippet: The dynamics that have shaped these job proximity patterns across and within metro areas did not emerge by The dynamics that have shaped these job proximity patterns across and within metro areas," Kneebone and Holmes wrote (PDF).
highlights_snippet: A new Brookings study says proximity to jobs is declining .
  