'Spatial mismatch' hurts employers, applicants in major cities
The city with the greatest percentage of zip codes in which open jobs far outnumbered available workers was Boston, followed by New York City, San Francisco, Chicago and Minneapolis, the Urban Institute determined. For the study, the Urban Institute gave 6.3 miles as the farthest reasonable distance that potential workers could live from the center of each zip code to be able to work a job in that zip code.
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