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Demography
In an Associated Press article about immigrants keeping the largest urban counties in the U. S. growing in 2024,听the Carsey School's Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson commented听鈥淎 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鈥� 60 Minutes Overtime interviewed the Carsey School鈥檚 Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson to find out what鈥檚 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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06/30/17 -Newly-released听federal estimates听find that the fertility rate fell further last year to 62.0 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, a historic low. In fact, 4 million fewer babies...
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06/29/17 -Research was听released this week听by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the 麻豆app and was conducted by Dante Scala 鈥� associate professor of political...
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06/27/17 - UNH Research Finds Clinton鈥檚 Defeat Result of Fewer Votes in Less Populated Areas of U.S.While Hillary Clinton nearly matched Barack Obama鈥檚 2012 performance in most urban areas, her failure to match recent Democratic presidential nominees in less populated areas... Read More -
06/15/17 -Ken Johnson, a 麻豆app demographer, told me, "It's a theme that runs through a lot of the historical research on rural America. Rural communities lose the...
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05/08/17 -鈥淭hink of the recession as freezing people in place -- now that is thawing,鈥� said Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer and public policy professor at the University of New...
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04/14/17 -For the past 40 or 50 years, it鈥檚 been normal for rural counties adjacent to metro areas to grow more quickly than counties located farther from cities, said Kenneth M. Johnson,...
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04/12/17 -A new听study听published in the journal听Demography听offers a first look at how local-level migration influences integration and segregation. It explores the "white flight" of families...
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04/04/17 - UNH Research Finds Migration Making Most American Counties More DiverseMigration increased the diversity of the population in two-thirds of U.S. counties between 2000 and 2010, according to new research released by the Carsey School of Public Policy... Read More -
03/27/17 -"When business owners are telling you that they can't find native residents who will do these jobs, or they can't find enough people in the community to pass a drug test, what...
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03/23/17 -The flight from rural areas has also begun to slow down, though their population is still declining overall. Traditionally, rural counties near metropolitan areas grew faster than...