Demography
In an Associated Press article about immigrants keeping the largest urban counties in the U. S. growing in 2024,Ìýthe Carsey School's Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson commentedÌý“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...
Recent Stories
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02/27/17 -Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson discusses how rural people and issues generally receive little attention from the urban-centric media and policy elites. Yet, rural...
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02/25/17 -Carsey School's Senior Demographer Ken Johnson discusses how rural people and issues generally receive little attention from the urban-centric media and policy elites. Yet, rural...
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02/03/17 -Americans are moving again in more rapid numbers after hunkering down during the recession. And people’s ability to move, as their personal finances or job outlooks have improved...
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02/01/17 -Research from the Âé¶¹app's Carsey School of Public Policy shows that deaths caused by drugs, alcohol and suicide nationwide rose by 52 percent from 2000 to...
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01/23/17 -When city populations started swelling in the early and mid-2000s, it had less to do with the first of the millennials moving in than it did with lots of slightly older people not...
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12/31/16 -Due, in part, to its aging population and net out-migration, there are more deaths than births among whites in California, but not in Texas. A recent study that I [Rogelio Saenz]...
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12/20/16 -Reliance on immigrant labor for health care is only expected to increase, especially in New England, where there's a demographic storm brewing. The region is home to some of theÌý...
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12/20/16 -According to Kenneth Johnson, a demographer at the Âé¶¹app, the Illinois drop and that in many northern states is a sort of return to the norm, with domestic...
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12/09/16 -Within the next three decades, the Census Bureau estimates that minorities will outnumber whites in America. We already reached a number of milestones along the way: There are now...
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12/03/16 -New Hampshire has joined the ranks of 17 other states experiencing a population shift known as white natural decrease, meaning more white people are dying than are being born in...