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Thursday, April 28, 2022

First-Time Homebuyer Watch: 1st Quarter 2022

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  Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, first quarter 2022: 49.0% Homeownership rates in the first quarter of 2022 were little c...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Pessimism about Climate Change

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Democrats and Republicans are in disagreement about most issues. Take climate change, for example. Only 11 percent of Republicans think ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

The Covid Toll: 2021 Worse than 2020

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The Covid death toll was greater in 2021 than in 2020 despite the roll-out of vaccines. Why? In part, because pandemic mitigation efforts be...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

More than 2 Million Identify as Transgender on Survey

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The Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey does more than track the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American households. In an eff...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Who Worries about Illegal Immigration?

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A growing share of Americans is "not at all" worried about illegal immigration, according to a recent Gallup survey. In fact, the ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The Marriage Market at Age 35

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Increasingly, a bachelor's degree is a prerequisite for marriage. The latest data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (N...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Boomer Generation Shrinks by More than 1 Million

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Between 2020 and 2021, the Baby Boom generation lost more than 1 million members, according to the Census Bureau's 2021 population estim...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

382 Days with 1,000+ Covid Deaths

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Twenty-five U.S. residents died of Covid-19 on April 10, 2022—the most recent data available from the CDC. This is the smallest daily death ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Big Decline in the Correctional Population

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The "correctional population" is shrinking—a lot. Before we dive into the numbers, first a definition. According to the Bureau of ...
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Thursday, April 07, 2022

Back to Normal? Not Really

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With Omicron fading in the United States, are Americans back to normal? Not really, according to a KFF survey. Here's how the public res...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

31% Drop in Immigrants in 2020

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707,362: that's the number of legal immigrants (persons granted lawful permanent resident status) who came to the United States in fisca...
Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Worried about Wrinkles, Gray Hair? Just Wait

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As one gets older, the list of potential health and beauty complaints grows. AARP has done a yeoman's job of documenting those complaint...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

70 Years of Work

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Everyone is always fussing about the ups and downs of women's labor force participation rate. But in fact, men's labor force partici...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

18% of Americans Live in a Multigenerational Home

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Over the past 50 years, the share of the U.S. population that lives in a multigenerational household has more than doubled, rising from 7 pe...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Reversal: Big Metro Counties Lose Population

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Population growth in the United States ground to a halt during the pandemic. Between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, the population grew by...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Who's Gotten a Booster?

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As of the middle of March, 85 percent of Americans aged 18 or older had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 59 percent had ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

56% Drop in Travel Spending

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The average American household spent 56 percent less on travel in 2020 than it did in 2019, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics' a...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Millions Still Smoke Cigarettes

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Many millions of Americans still smoke cigarettes, despite decades of warnings, hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, and millions in h...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Stability in Children's Living Arrangements

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The living arrangements of the nation's children have changed little over the past 12 years, according to a Census Bureau report compari...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

How Did You Sleep Last Night?

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It's a toss-up, according to The State of Sleep in America 2022 Report.  One-third of American adults (32 percent) reported "very g...
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Cheryl Russell
Demographer Cheryl Russell was the editorial director of New Strategist Press and the editor-in-chief of American Demographics magazine. She has written numerous books about demographic trends. Ms. Russell is a professional demographer with a degree from Cornell University.
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