Helping People by Helping Distressed Places

This column is the first in a series on place-based jobs policies.

For every working-age person in Flint who moves elsewhere, the number of jobs in Flint goes down by at least one. (Photo credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Our nation has two types of distressed places: local labor markets and neighborhoods. Too many local labor markets—multi-county areas such as metro areas or rural commuting zones—have too l…