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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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08/13/21 -The Hill newspaper recently interviewed Ken Johnson, Senior Demographer at the Carsey School, regarding new census data that shows a natural decrease in the white population as...
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08/13/21 -The birthrate declined for the sixth straight year in 2020, according to the federal government.ÌýKenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the Carsey School, has calculated that...
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07/27/21 -Ken Johnson, Senior Demographer with the Carsey School of Public Policy, was recently interviewed by The Wall Street Journal regarding the role of population growth in bolstering...
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07/09/21 -The Alexandra Gazette Packet recently interviewed Ken Johnson, Carsey School Senior Demographer, to discuss nationwide declining birth rates and its impact on local school systems...
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06/26/21 -Do shrinking birth rates and closing elementary schools in New Hampshire offer a preview of what's to happen around the country? Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson...
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06/24/21 -Ken Johnson, Senior Demographer with Carsey School of Public Policy, was recently cited in Bloomberg regarding new data that in 2020,Ìý25 states had more deaths than births – a...
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06/21/21 -WMTW Channel 8 in Portland recently reported on dropping birth rates in Maine and around the country and interviewed Carsey School of Public Policy Senior Demographer Ken Johnson...
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06/11/21 -NBC News recently referenced research by Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson in which he found that 25 states saw more deaths than births in 2020.
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06/10/21 -The Daily Yonder recently referenced research byÌýKen Johnson, Senior Demographer at the Carsey School of Public Policy, in an article on the spread and infection rate of COVID-19...
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05/28/21 -Ken Johnson, Senior Demographer with the Carsey School, was recently quoted in an article in the Anchorage Daily News aboutÌýpopulation gains the states in the South and the West...