Tag: Geographic Mobility
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American Geographic Mobility is Declining (It Has Been for Generations)
“Increasing mobility has left us uprooted and disconnected from communities in America.” This is a common refrain going back at least 100 years. Think of the song following World War I that asked how are you going to keep them down on the farm once they have seen gay Paree’? The lament of increasing mobility…
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Demography Links
1. New York Times: Why Are Americans Staying Put? … “This decline in migration has been going on for a long time now, through all sorts of ups and downs in the housing market,” said Greg Kaplan of Princeton University, who, along with Sam Schulhofer-Wohl of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, has studied the…
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Economics Links
1. Timothy Taylor (The Conservable Economist) has several interesting graphs on The Global Wealth Distribution 2. Britain Just Privatized Its Mail Service at a $1 Billion Discount The largest initial public offering in Europe in more than two years could have been even larger. The privatization of the Royal Mail, in which around two-thirds of…
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Americans Love Moving More Than Almost Everyone Else In The World
Business Insider: Americans Love Moving More Than Almost Everyone Else In The World
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Saturday Links
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in Business, Christian Life, Crime, Culture, Current Affairs, Demography, Ecclesia, Environment, Europe, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Links – Saturday, Music, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Religion, Science, Social Media, Sports and Entertainment, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy)(Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed.) 1. Several articles I saw this week reflect on data presented in The Pew Forum's The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Major Religious Groups as of 2010. Here…
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Maybe Americans Aren’t Moving Because They Don’t Need To (Rise of the City Economy)
Atlantic Cities: Maybe Americans Aren't Moving Because They Don't Need To Compared to Europe and other OECD countries, the United States has long been a highly mobile population. (I seem to recall Australia was high as well.) People used to migrate for better economic opportunities, partly because there were such significant differences between locations in…
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Love Where You Live
Christianity Today: Love Where You Live Urban, suburban, and rural churches respond to new challenges in a less mobile era. … … If the latest figures on geographic mobility are any indication, we would be wise to make nice with those neighbors. Despite commercial air travel, interstate highways, mobile phones, and e-mail, the mobility rate…
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Residential Mover Rate in U.S. is Lowest Since Census Bureau Began Tracking in 1948
U. S. Census Bureau: Residential Mover Rate in U.S. is Lowest Since Census Bureau Began Tracking in 1948 The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the national mover rate declined from 13.2 percent in 2007 to 11.9 percent in 2008 — the lowest rate since the bureau began tracking these data in 1948. In 2008,…
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Demographic landscape shifts across United States
USA Today: Demographic landscape shifts across United States White populations have declined in more than half of the USA's counties since 2000, helping fuel a rise in the number of communities where minorities are now the majority, an analysis of 2007 Census estimates released today shows. The data reflect how immigration, a population boom among…
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The Realignment of America
Wall Street Journal: The Realignment of America by Michael Barone (A lengthy but interesting article on demographic shifts.) The native-born are leaving "hip" cities for the heartland. In 1950, when I was in kindergarten in Detroit, the city had a population of (rounded off) 1,850,000. Today the latest census estimate for Detroit is 886,000, less…