Upton: Don’t Change MSA Populations

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Congressman Fred Upton is joining four other representative from Michigan to ask the Biden administration to not change the population requirement for a metropolitan statistical area, or MSA, from 50,000 to 100,000 residents. If this change was adopted, six MSAs in Michigan, and 144 nationally, would lose their MSA and be relegated to a micropolitan, including the Niles-Benton Harbor MSA in Upton’s Sixth Congressional District. The other five regions in Michigan that would lose MSA Status are Battle Creek, Bay City, Jackson, Midland, and Monroe. Upton says the federal dollars spur investment creating jobs and helping the economy and adds “as we continue to emerge from the pandemic we must focus our energy on policies that improve the wellbeing and economic opportunities for all Americans.”