Robert Manduca

Thanks! Yeah I wasn't really satisfied with the legend appearance (and the fiscal capacity ratio itself isn't an immediately obvious concept). Appreciate the perseverance!

Amazing--thanks!!

Huge fan of the channel—thanks for all your work!

Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality Abstract. The United States devolves responsibility for providing critical services to local governments. With limited centralized transfers, the ability t

And the paper is online (open access) at: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

All the data is available for free at www.taxbasefragmentation.net/data

And metro-level stats on the overall level of tax base fragmentation

America’s oldest Black town is in Illinois — and it’s dying. But the fight has begun to save it. America’s oldest Black town is Brooklyn, Illinois. Once an Underground Railroad stop, it’s now dying. A race is on to save it.

We also have data on the municipalities that are most disadvantaged relative to their metro (think Detroit, Newark, etc., but also tiny cities that are in even worse straights) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/05/b...

Southern California's unlikely AI mecca is this very industrial city Vernon has become an essential location for artificial intelligence data centers.

Others are corporate enclaves with hardly any residents (Vernon CA is especially wild) www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Inside the island fortress of America's mega-billionaires It's America's wealthiest town. Approach at your own peril.

Some of these are exclusive suburbs like the Park Cities in Dallas or Median/Hunts Point in Seattle www.businessinsider.com/billionaire-...

With this data, you can identify which individual jurisdictions have per capita tax bases way higher than their metro average—benefiting from their regional economies and infrastructure, but not contributing to the regional tax base. They’re municipal tax havens!

Some collaborators and I used property tax records to put together a dataset of the per capita tax base for every municipality in the country bsky.app/profile/bhig...

@nerd4cities.bsky.social Video suggestion: the top 10 most egregious municipal tax havens in the United States www.taxbasefragmentation.net

Really excited to present work on tax base fragmentation at @umisr.bsky.social tomorrow! Come check it out!

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Who should care for older adults, especially when dementia is involved?

New ISR research led by @spattersearch.bsky.social finds strong expectations for family caregiving, even as families shrink and needs grow.

Learn more about this study on caregiving expectations: myumi.ch/kPEqj

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@umichstonecid.bsky.social at ISR has received a 5 million dollar gift from the Stone Foundation to advance research on wealth inequality and mobility.

Learn more about this gift to the Stone Center: myumi.ch/Nr4pD

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We’re thrilled to share that @umichstonecid.bsky.social has received a new $5M gift from the Stone Foundation to continue our critical work to produce research on social inequality and train the next generation of #inequality scholars. Learn more:

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Cool new article alert 🚨: Tax Base Fragmentation as a Dimension of Metropolitan Inequality by @robertmanduca.bsky.social, @bhighsmith.bsky.social, Jacob Waggoner.

academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

Love seeing this use of our tax base fragmentation viz!!

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Check out this 🧵 on our own @robertmanduca.bsky.social's work with @bhighsmith.bsky.social and Jacob Waggoner. 👇 #AcademicSky #WealthInequality

Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality Abstract. The United States devolves responsibility for providing critical services to local governments. With limited centralized transfers, the ability t

We conceptualize ‘tax base fragmentation’: the spatial concentration (within a metro area) of property wealth in particular wealthy municipalities. The concept is intuitive—but not captured by existing measures of segregation and jurisdictional fragmentation. Link: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Check out our new paper (+ the accompanying web viz)!

A new working paper from @umichstonecid.bsky.social/SRC researcher @robertmanduca.bsky.social examining the geography of social transfer programs & implications for cuts to Medicaid & SNAP in the recently signed federal budget.

Also see: equitablegrowth.org/medicaid-and...

If Trump signs his big bill into law, America could end up with a social safety net that ‘barely functions’ America’s social safety net is poised to become thinner if the Republicans’ massive tax and spending bill crosses the finish line, at a time when low-income consumers are struggling and recession fear...

In @marketwatch.com @robertmanduca.bsky.social helps break down what's at stake for local communities as a result of Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill—on average these safety-net programs account for 40 percent of money flowing into local communities.

www.marketwatch.com/story/how-th...

Hey that's @robertmanduca.bsky.social's research!

Medicaid and SNAP cuts in congressional Republicans’ budget bill will negatively impact local economies New research shows how cuts to Medicaid and other social programs negatively impact local economies as well as program beneficiaries.

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58% of military in CA-22 (Valadao)

223% of water transport (Staten Island ferries! largest private industry in district) in NY-11 (Malliotakis)

100% of pipeline transport in TX-15 (De La Cruz)

equitablegrowth.org/medicaid-and... h/t @robertmanduca.bsky.social @equitablegrowth.bsky.social

"Cuts to social programs will have a major impact on local economic activity." Social programs are a key part of the regional economic base. @robertmanduca.bsky.social on how Medicaid and SNAP cuts in the #ReconciliationBill will negatively impact local economies:
equitablegrowth.org/medicaid-and...

Starting in 10 minutes!

A lot of the discussion of the reconciliation bill has focused--rightly--on the consequences for beneficiaries of these programs. 11 million people are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage, and 4.5 million stand to lose SNAP. That's a ton. But the economic impacts may be even more widespread