By the end of 2012, 300 of the nation’s 363 metro areas will experience real economic growth, according to a new economic report released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors at their Summer Leadership meeting earlier this week. And that’s good news, because, as the...
Demographics
U.S. Immigration Trends: Numbers Continue to Rise
by guest contributor, Peter Fugiel, Ph.D. Legal Immigration Rate Held Steady during the Recession U.S. population to reach 420 million mid-century; 600 million possible by 2100? It is seldom that the sheer metrics of a trend are too big to comprehend. While everyone...
In the U.S., Biggest States Are Hot, While Biggest Cities Are Not
As the trend in U.S. politics will be to recognize the huge population growth of the nations’ very largest states, the reverse is true for our largest cities. In American culture, living in large cities is not a life style preference. In fact, the most recent census...
MuniNet Guide Top Picks – Demographics
As the real-time population clock on the U.S. Census Bureau home page illustrates, demographics change by the minute. Behind the dynamic facts and figures are people - people who are being born, aging, dying, marrying, divorcing, immigrating, moving, working, earning,...
2010 Census Winners and Losers: U.S. Mega-States and How They Got that Way
by guest contributor Peter Fugiel, Ph.D. There have always been big states and small states among the United States It is just that in the last 30 years, there has been a new category of states that are becoming so big, they are as big as major countries. These...
New Yorkers Continue to Migrate to Other States
If it’s true that “you can take a girl (or guy) out of New York, but you can never take the New York out of the girl,” then there’s a lot of New York scattered round the country these days. “For the second consecutive decade, New York’s net population loss due to...