Showing posts with label population. Show all posts
Showing posts with label population. Show all posts
Monday, June 29, 2026

The Districts Are Too Damn Big

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Many posts have discussed reapportionment and redistricting .  There have long been proposals to enlarge the House , thereby creating l...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Foreign-Born Population

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  Many   posts  have  discussed   immigration . Stephanie Kramer and Jeffrey S. Passel at Pew: As of June 2025, 51.9 million immigrants live...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Demographics, Inflation, Social Security, and Medicare

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Many posts  have  discussed   Social Security  and Medicare . James C. Capretta at AEI: During the raucous debate surrounding the GOP-sponso...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Without Immigration, Shrinkage!

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    Many   posts  have  discussed   population  and   immigration . CBO,  The Demographic Outlook: 2025 to 2055 The size of the U.S. populat...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Depopulation

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     Many   posts  have  discussed   population and   immigration . Nicholas Eberstadt at Foreign Affairs : Although few yet see it coming,...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Declining Ranks of Irish Americans

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In 2017, Drew DeSilver reported at Pew: In 2015, 32.7 million Americans , or one-in-ten, identified themselves as being of Irish ancestry , ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

The Graying of America, 21st Century

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 CBO : The size of the U.S. population , as well as its age and sex composition, has significant implications for the economy and the federa...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

California: The Exodus of the Affluent

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 Don Lee at LAT :  In 2021 and 2022, about 750,000 more people left the state than moved in, according to recently released Census Bureau d...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

California Update: Losing Population, Flunking Computer Science

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Erin Davis at Axios: New data from the U.S. Census shows that around 820,000 people moved out of California and 550,000 out of New York in...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Sticky States

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Texas natives likeliest to ‘stick’ around, pointing to state’s economic health Ana Pranger, Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny Federal Reserv...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

New York and California are Losing Affluent Taxpayers

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 Justin Fox at Bloomberg : New York has been losing people to other states for a while. But something new happened during the pandemioc: T...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Census: Aging America

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 From the Census Bureau: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released the 2020 Census Demographic Profile and Demographic and Housing Characterist...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Enlarging the House: Practical Considerations

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Danielle Allen at WP: A system requiring one person to represent the interests of almost 1 million people would have troubled Washington —...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Options for Enlarging the House

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At WP, Danielle Allen writes that we need smaller House districts. But how big should the House be ? That is also to ask how small should a ...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

California Is Losing Affluent Residents

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Many posts have discussed California 's many problems . Hans Johnson and Eric McGhee at PPIC : During the height of the pandemic, t...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Shrinkage in California

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Ben Christopher at CalMatter: In 2021, it was big news — the “ California exodus .” Now, it just looks like the new trend: California’s popu...
Monday, December 26, 2022

USA Grows, California and Illinois Shrink

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From the Census Bureau: After a historically low rate of change between 2020 and 2021, the U.S. resident population increased by 0.4%, or 1...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Shrinkage: Natural Decrease in Population

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From the Census: More than 73% (2,297) of U.S. counties experienced natural decrease in 2021, up from 45.5% in 2019 and 55.5% in 2020, accor...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Slowest Population Growth Since the Founding

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From the Census Bureau : According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2021 national and state population estimates and components of chang...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Black Population Outflow from Big Cities

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Shia Kappos and colleagues at Politico : Chicago — and neighborhoods like Englewood — offer perhaps the most extreme example of a demograph...