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Demography

The Daily Yonder: "Over the past decade, the rural population declined by 0.6% but simultaneously became nearly 4 percentage points more diverse. That represents a nearly 20% increase in the portion of rural residents who are members of a racial or ethnic minority. In the following article,...

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    Professor Kenneth Johnson discusses the decline in births since the recession.
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    All Things Considered host Peter Biello speaks with Ken Johnson on new census data showing N.H. continues to gain population from domestic migration.
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    As Kenneth Johnson puts it, “migration is the wild card, the big unknown†for New Hampshire’s population growth.
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    Kenneth Johnson explains how in the decade since the recession, American women had 4.8 million fewer babies thanÌıdemographers were expecting.
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    “For decades, the Economic Research Service hasÌıprovided fact based, definitive research on agricultural, economic, demographic and social conditions in rural America. They have...
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    American women are having children at the lowest rate on record.Ìı
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    They are neither pollsters nor television cable news panelists — and they did not predict Donald Trump’s victory — but demographer Kenneth Johnson and election law expert...
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    What's affecting all of those categories now, population analysts say, is the end of the Great Recession. Young people, burdened with student debt and unable to find jobs tended...