Job displacement hits people in both rural and inner cities hard because emerging new industries tend to be located in suburban, not urban or rural, areas—a phenomenon called
A. spatial discontinuity.
B. geographic discontinuity.
C. geographic mismatch.
D. spatial mismatch.
Answer: D
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