Just 31 counties, or the top 1% by share, made up 32.3% of U.S. gross domestic product in 2018, according to data released last week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis that included nearly 20 years of county-level GDP data. That's despite these counties only having 26.1% of employed Americans and 21.9% of the population last year. Their combined GDP share is also up from a recession low of 30.1% in 2009. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-us-gdp-concentration-counties/ The nation’s economy is becoming increasingly concentrated in large cities and by the coasts—and less so in rural counties—spurring the question of whether rural areas will be increasingly left behind. The growing concentration of the country’s economic activity could impact a variety of things from infrastructure spending to labor mobility, but it’s unclear how rural areas will fare as their share of economic output continues to dwindle.
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State Rep. John Becker (Ohio) claims that he did not know much about ectopic pregnancies before writing a bill about that. Following pointed critique of his bill by a Maryland geneticist, Becker claimed he relied on a scientific article from 1917.
