Rio Grande Guardian
McALLEN, RGV – The more people that live in Cameron County and commute for work in Hidalgo County, or vice versa, the sooner the Census Bureau will designate the Rio Grande Valley as one unified Metropolitan Statistical Area.
This is the view of Roberto A. Coronado, assistant vice president in charge and senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, El Paso Branch.
“There is a formula that is applied to find the trigger point on when a community or area will be added to an MSA and it is typically arrived at by measuring the number of commuters,” Coronado said.
“This is evaluated every ten years by the Census Bureau. Once they have done the population census, they know where you live and where you work and if you commute. If you reach a percentage of your population that commutes that is when you are merged into an MSA.”
Asked if amalgamating MSAs is therefore automatic, once a certain percentage of the population commutes between two MSAs, Coronado said: “Exactly. It is a technical definition. Once you have reached the threshold of commuters you will have to be one MSA and it depends in which direction the commuters go as to whether it will be McAllen-Brownsville or Brownsville-McAllen.”
Coronado said there are advantages to merging MSAs.
“Assuming you are there I think there is value in a number of different aspects. Once you are a larger community, you typically pop up on a number of different maps. So, if you are a corporation and you want to establish somewhere and you look into McAllen and you say, well it is 800,000 people. If you look into Brownsville it is X number of people. Once McAllen and Brownsville are together the united MSA perhaps equals one and a half million people. Well, suddenly, you are not as small as you thought. You start showing up in a number of different maps. The larger you are the more likely you are to get somebody’s attention.”
The larger the MSA, the more funding is appropriated, Coronado said.
“From a funding perspective, a lot of the funding that happens from state and federal government is to some extent linked to population. And so, perhaps, you will be able to draw down more resources.”
However, there are, potentially, some disadvantages too, Coronado said. “If you really want to preserve both regions’ identity that is going to be a challenge.”
(Roberto A. Coronado is the Assistant Vice President in Charge and Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, El Paso Branch. Coronado currently serves as the president of the Rio Grande Economics Association, the El Paso chapter of the National Association for Business Economics. He is also a clinical assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he teaches in the Executive MBA program. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University ofHouston and holds a BBA in accounting and economics and an MS in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso.)
McALLEN, RGV – The more people that live in Cameron County and commute for work in Hidalgo County, or vice versa, the sooner the Census Bureau will designate the Rio Grande Valley as one unified Metropolitan Statistical Area.
This is the view of Roberto A. Coronado, assistant vice president in charge and senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, El Paso Branch.
“There is a formula that is applied to find the trigger point on when a community or area will be added to an MSA and it is typically arrived at by measuring the number of commuters,” Coronado said.
“This is evaluated every ten years by the Census Bureau. Once they have done the population census, they know where you live and where you work and if you commute. If you reach a percentage of your population that commutes that is when you are merged into an MSA.”
Asked if amalgamating MSAs is therefore automatic, once a certain percentage of the population commutes between two MSAs, Coronado said: “Exactly. It is a technical definition. Once you have reached the threshold of commuters you will have to be one MSA and it depends in which direction the commuters go as to whether it will be McAllen-Brownsville or Brownsville-McAllen.”
Coronado said there are advantages to merging MSAs.
“Assuming you are there I think there is value in a number of different aspects. Once you are a larger community, you typically pop up on a number of different maps. So, if you are a corporation and you want to establish somewhere and you look into McAllen and you say, well it is 800,000 people. If you look into Brownsville it is X number of people. Once McAllen and Brownsville are together the united MSA perhaps equals one and a half million people. Well, suddenly, you are not as small as you thought. You start showing up in a number of different maps. The larger you are the more likely you are to get somebody’s attention.”
The larger the MSA, the more funding is appropriated, Coronado said.
“From a funding perspective, a lot of the funding that happens from state and federal government is to some extent linked to population. And so, perhaps, you will be able to draw down more resources.”
However, there are, potentially, some disadvantages too, Coronado said. “If you really want to preserve both regions’ identity that is going to be a challenge.”
(Roberto A. Coronado is the Assistant Vice President in Charge and Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, El Paso Branch. Coronado currently serves as the president of the Rio Grande Economics Association, the El Paso chapter of the National Association for Business Economics. He is also a clinical assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he teaches in the Executive MBA program. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University ofHouston and holds a BBA in accounting and economics and an MS in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso.)
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4 comments:
I feel sorry for the upper valley if this happens. They kick the lower valleys ass continuously. Especially the shit hole of brownsville. They have a great economy up there where as bville is nothing but crap businesses run by narco refugees from matamoros.
The blimp will take credit for it if it ever happens Juan. Because he wrote a story about it once...hahahah!
Upper Valley = Richer narco refugees from Reynosa and Monterrey
McAllen- Homes of former Tamaulipas governor Eugenio Hernandez Flores, homes of former Tamaulipas governor Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba. BOTH accused of cooperating with the narco drug cartels.
Current residency of former Nuevo Leon governor Rodrigo Medina accused of leaving the state of Nuevo Leon in bankruptcy by current governor Jaime Rodriguez (El Bronco).
Upper Valley: Most drug and illegal crossing apprehensions in the whole USA.
Yeap, I guess McAllen is a great place for the drug dealers from Reynosa and Nuevo Leon. Pobres de los pobres-Brownsville, TX.
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