Demography
In an Associated Press article about immigrants keeping the largest urban counties in the U. S. growing in 2024,the Carsey School's Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson commented“A substantial excess of births over deaths has long been the primary driver of U.S. population growth, but as this...
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05/22/25CBS News’ 60 Minutes Overtime interviewed the Carsey School’s Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson to find out what’s happening with American women...
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05/21/25In this Newsweek article, U.S. News Reporter Jordan King interviews experts to examine the reason Americans are moving to low-tax states. Kenneth...
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06/15/22The Daily Yonder: "Over the past decade, the rural population declined by 0.6% but simultaneously became nearly 4 percentage points more diverse....
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06/01/22In this article The Hill reports, "More than half of American cities registered a loss of population over the last year as people flocked to suburbs...
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12/27/17 -New Hampshire tends to receive talented, well-educated people in its migration stream, said Ken Johnson, senior demographer at the 鶹app’s Carsey School, so...
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12/27/17 -Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the 鶹app’s Carsey School, estimates that the Great Recession resulted in 4 million fewer births than what otherwise...
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12/21/17 -Census officials have long had difficulty in counting Americans in rural areas, but the challenge could be exacerbated in 2020 by a new focus on getting Americans to respond to...
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12/21/17 -Kenneth Johnson, professor of sociology and senior demographer at the 鶹app, has devoted a lot of his time to researchingfertility trends over the period...
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12/18/17 - Hard-to-Count Populations May Increase 2020 Census Challenges in Rural AmericaCarsey School of Public Policy 鶹app (603) 862-4650;carsey.communications@unh.edu @carseyschool Dec. 18, 2017 DURHAM, N.H.– As the Census Bureau prepares... Read More
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11/06/17 -“Counties are not losing population randomly,” said Ken Johnson, senior demographer, 鶹app Carsey School of Public Policy. “The people who leave rural...
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09/29/17 -Nationally, the rate dipped to 62.0 last year,a record low, with 3.9 million births. There were4.1 million fewer babiesborn from 2008 to 2016 than expected based on previous...
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07/29/17 -A lack of decent cellphone reception and internet service can deter businesses from moving to these areas, said Ken Johnson, a demographer at the Carsey School of Public Policy...
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07/17/17 -"That transitional period will be very Difficukt for any society," said Ken Johnson, a dfemographer with the 鶹app who is the state's go-to-guy for analysis...
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07/16/17 -There is a dearth of births in the United States and if the trend continues it could further aggravate existing problems employers are having finding workers. In fact, an...