[Source: U.S. Census Bureau] . From the US Census Bureau, in advance of the 2012 Economic Census: How Do We Know? Inside America’s Economic Machine The United States has the world’s largest economy, with a gross domestic product of $15 trillion, almost twice the size of China, the second largest economy. The U.S. Census Bureau’s […]
Leading the Aging Wave
I got to visit my friends at Kiwanis today and talk about Census 2010 results. Locally, our county seat town grew slightly from 2000, while our county contracted slightly as did the regional overall. The Micropolitan centers of Worthington and Marshall led growth in our area, both overall and in minority (particularly Hispanic) population growth. […]
Not Too Many, But Too Few
Joel Kotkin got it right. The Economist last week reported on increasing concern with the impending demographic disaster of China’s One-Child policy. While their 2010 census counted 1.34 billion people, the survey also reveals a “steep decline” in average annual growth rates. China’s fertility rate may be as low as 1.4 now, far below the […]
Kotkin and Florida: Two Sides of the Same Prosperity
[v=zWHUsXQyLZs] How are we ever supposed to improve our economic situation if we can’t even agree on what the problems are? Here we are, a good two-three years through the Greatest Recession/Depression/Indigestion since the 1930s and we’re still arguing about who did what tho whom when. The trouble with current events is they’re just too […]
Southwest Minnesota Leading the Trend
SWMN Population 65+ in 2000 World’s Population Getting Older The world’s 65-and-older population is projected to triple by midcentury, from 516 million in 2009 to 1.53 billion in 2050, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In the United States, the population 65 and older will more than double by 2050, rising from 39 million today […]
