RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, December 28, 2011, The Brookings Institution
The U.S. population grew more slowly last year than in any year since 1945, writes William H. Frey, reflecting a weak labor market and an aging population. The slowdown spread to more states, affecting previously stable growers like Georgia, North Carolina, Colorado, and Texas. Read More
VIDEO
William H. Frey, December 20, 2011
The 2010 Census reveals that America is a nation on the precipice of immense change, says William Frey. The data tell us that our aging population will give way to the most diverse generation of Americans to date.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, Alan Berube, Audrey Singer and Jill Wilson, December 20, 2011, TIME.com
Data from the Census Bureau released in 2011 show the huge demographic changes taking shape across the United States. In this slideshow, experts from the Metropolitan Policy Program look back at analyses from the past year, highlighting decreases in domestic mobility and economic opportunity, along with significant growth in both the aging and ethnic minority populations. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, November 17, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Will the sharp slide in America’s migration rates ever end? William H. Frey analyzes recently released Census statistics which show that the country’s great migration slowdown is broadening — especially among college graduates and young adults. However, as Frey notes, modestly growing coastal and industrial states are losing fewer residents. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, October 28, 2011, The Brookings Institution
As the Occupy Wall Street movement focuses attention on the plight of unemployed young adults, William H. Frey analyzes new Census statistics on migration and shows that during the down economy many have gravitated to a select group of metro areas with modestly growing economies and a strong youth cachet. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer and Jill H. Wilson, October 24, 2011, CNN.com
Audrey Singer and Jill Wilson explore why the debate around immigration reform has been especially rancorous during the past few years. The authors examine the varied approaches to reform among different states, with states such as Alabama passing tough immigration laws as others pass laws to draw immigrants in. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer, October 24, 2011, National Immigrant Integration Conference
In a keynote presentation to the National Immigrant Integration Conference in Seattle, Audrey Singer examines national and metropolitan immigration trends in the first decade of the 21st century, a time when swift demographic change, congressional inaction, and economic turmoil have led to a patchwork of state and local approaches to immigration. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alan Berube and Elizabeth Kneebone, September 22, 2011, The Avenue, The New Republic
Data from the 2010 American Community Survey, released today by the Census Bureau, show increases in poverty and declines in income across the United States. Alan Berube and Elizabeth Kneebone analyze the data and note significant trends affecting the country’s largest 100 metropolitan areas, and their cities and suburbs. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Washington, DC
On September 13, the day the Census Bureau's latest poverty report was released, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings held its ninth annual briefing to discuss the new figures and their implications for families and policymakers. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, August 31, 2011, The Brookings Institution
The 2010 Census shows that the first decade of the 21st century was pivotal for racial and ethnic change in the United States. William H. Frey finds that the rapid growth of Hispanic and Asian origin groups and internal shifts of African Americans are transforming the racial and ethnic demographic profiles of America’s largest metropolitan areas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alan Berube, July 14, 2011, Suburbs and the 2010 Census: National Conference
During a conference exploring the 2010 Census and U.S. suburbs, Alan Berube delivered a presentation on the demographic convergence between cities and suburbs within metropolitan areas. Berube explored the socioeconomic, ethnic, and age-related shifts affecting the country’s suburban areas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, June 28, 2011, The Brookings Institution
America is beginning to show its age as the baby boom generation advances toward full-fledged seniorhood. In a new analysis of 2010 Census data, William Frey finds that the pace of this aging will vary widely across the national landscape due to noticeable geographic shifts in the younger population, with implications for health care, transportation, and housing—and possible impacts on our ability to forge societal consensus. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, May 04, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Due to a reduction of white flight, increased black suburbanization, and a greater Hispanic presence in cities and suburbs, metropolitan populations are becoming increasingly multi-hued. As described in William Frey’s analysis of Census 2010, this dissolution of stereotypes holds important implications for social service providers, which now need to serve people with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and politicians, who can no longer rely upon demographically homogenous voting blocs. Read More
VIDEO
Thomas E. Mann, April 29, 2011
The redrawing of congressional districts that follows the census is an exercise in pure politics, says expert Thomas Mann. As a result, a state's representation in Congress often bears little relation to the actual partisan makeup of its population, he says.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, April 08, 2011, The Avenue, The New Republic
According to Census 2010 data, the child population in many states and metropolitan areas has declined. William Frey analyzes this trend and what it could mean for communities and education systems throughout the United States. Read More