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Entries tagged with Demographics

With young adults 30 percent more likely to live within 3 miles of central business districts today (up from 10 percent in 1980 and 12 percent in 1990), access to jobs, educational opportunities, people and ideas, and the fact that new research points to real estate in more walkable neighborhoods…

You know all that talk about today's new Baby Boom?  Think again.  The percentage of American households with children under 18 living at home last year -- 46% hit the lowest point in 50 years.  Last year, about 35.7 million families had children under 18 at home.  The percentage peaked…

NYT notes the demographic changes brought on by NYC's renaissance. 

Since 2000, the number of young children living in parts of Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. The poverty rate declined in all but one New York City neighborhood. A majority of Bronx residents are…

The working age population of 18-64 is expected to drop from 63% of the population in 2008 to 57% by 2050.  That working population will be 55% minority in 2050, according to census estimates, a 21 percentage point increase from 2008.  More than 30% of the working-age population will be…

At predictable intervals, the press promotes the "new trend" of hordes of women leaving the workforce to raise their children.  The problem is it's just not true. 

Sixty percent of all women who have children work. 

A new Census Bureau report finds that women are waiting longer to have children…