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The Brookings Institution’s
Metropolitan Policy Program (led by
Bruce Katz) has just released its
The State of Metropolitan America report (full
pdf). The report builds on eight years of the Census Bureau’s
American Community Surveys; and includes a spiffy
State of Metropolitan America Indicator Map of changes in population indicators at state, metropolitan, and suburban levels.160;160;
Some interesting
findings:
- America's suburbs are now more likely to be home to minorities, the poor and a rapidly growing older population as many younger, educated whites move to cities for jobs and shorter commutes.
- Two-thirds of primary cities in large metropolitan areas grew from 2000 to 2008
- For the first time in several decades, the population is growing at a faster rate than households, due to delays in marriage, divorce and births as well as longer life spans. People living alone and nonmarried couple families are among the fastest-growing in suburbs.
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posted by stratastar
on May 8, 2010 -
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