Demography
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| White Deaths Exceed Births in One-Third of U.S. States In 2014, deaths among non-Hispanic whites exceeded births in more states than at any time in U.S. history. Seventeen states, home to 121 million residents or roughly 38 percent of the U.S. population, had more deaths than births among non-Hispanic whites (hereafter… |
Demography | Demography, Mortality |
| Demographic and Economic Characteristics of Immigrant and Native-Born Populations in Rural and Urban Places In recent years, researchers have documented the changing demographics of rural areas, with a specific focus on changes in racial-ethnic composition and immigration patterns, particularly the increased migration of Hispanics to rural places. In spite of this… |
Demography | Demography, Poverty, Race, Rural, Urban |
| U.S. Births Remain Low as the Great Recession Wanes The Great Recession sent an economic shock through American society that reached far beyond the stock and housing markets. More than five years after economists announced the end of the recession, fertility levels have still not recovered. As a result, more than 3.4… |
Demography | Birth Rates |
| First in the Nation More than half a million people are expected to participate in the New Hampshire 2016 Presidential Primary. The time-honored symbol of the primary is the laconic Yankee with deep ancestral roots in the state, who dismisses fourth-generation residents as newcomers.… |
Demography, New Hampshire | Demography, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections |
| Deaths Exceed Births in Most of Europe, But Not in the United States With the increased attention to Europe’s demographic future stimulated by the on-going immigration crisis, we present important new findings about the diminishing number of births compared to deaths in Europe and the United States from our recent article in… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Mortality |
| Why Do the Children Flee? “Fleeing Gangs, Children Head to U.S. Border” New York Times July 9, 2014 In summer of 2014, headlines throughout the hemisphere called attention to an unfolding tragedy: the plight of Central Americans fleeing north to escape the violence engulfing… |
Demography, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Migration |
| Red Rural, Blue Rural Political commentators routinely treat rural America as an undifferentiated bastion of strength for Republicans. In fact, rural America is a deceptively simple term describing a diverse collection of places encompassing nearly 75 percent of the U.S. land area and 50… |
Demography | Demography, Politics and Elections, Rural |
| A Transformation in Mexican Migration to the United States The early years of the twenty-first century have seen a major decline in the volume of migration from Mexico to the United States. According to one study, during the 2005–2010 period, slightly more Mexicans left the United States (1.39 million) than entered it (1.37… |
Demography | Hispanics, Migration |
| Diversity Growing Because Births Far Exceed Deaths Among Minorities, But Not Among Whites The growing diversity of the U.S. population evident in new Census Bureau estimates reflects two important demographic trends. The minority population is growing and the non-Hispanic white population is not. This interplay of white and minority population change is… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Mortality |
| Migration Trends Shifted in 2014 In this fact sheet, author Ken Johnson reports on new Census Bureau data released on March 26, 2015. The data provide further evidence that the recession’s influence on domestic migration is diminishing. Migration patterns are reverting to those commonly seen before… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Migration |
