It’s no secret that gains from the robust economic recovery following the Great Recession have disproportionately gone to a small number of areas in the United States. For instance, 20 metropolitan areas collectively account for about one-quarter of the country’s population, but over 40% of job growth since 2010. Additionally, employment in urban areas since […]
How Did Nuclear Weapons Testing Affect People in the Northern Marshall Islands?
From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. military conducted 67 nuclear weapon tests in the northern part of the Marshall Islands. Of these, 23 were conducted in the Bikini Atoll and 44 in or near the Enewetak Atoll. Prior to the tests, people living on these islands moved to other islands to avoid nuclear exposure. For […]