Since the credit crisis and the Great Recession that followed, Americans are staying put. The U.S. migration rate has reached its lowest point since World War II, according to a new report from the Metropolitan Policy Program, “The Great American Migration Slowdown: Regional and Metropolitan Dimensions.” Demographer and Senior Fellow William H. Frey, the report’s author, explains that this slowdown in migration can be seen in regions and cities across the country.
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The Slowdown of Migration in America
December 9, 2009