Americans are staying put (but not entirely by choice)
Americans have stopped moving! And the economy is to blame. While this isn't particularly revelatory, our partners at the New York Times are reporting that fewer Americans moved last year than in any...
View ArticleOverturning demographic myths
Demographic statistics can be complicated, and they tend to be oversimplified and sensationalized in media coverage. That’s Martin Walker’s argument. He’s a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center...
View ArticleA Teenager's So-Called Financial Life
The economic downturn is making life harder than usual for teenagers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the unemployment rate among teens is 21.7 percent — the highest rate in nearly 20...
View ArticleAmerica's Most Diverse Place? Kindergarten
A new demographic study shows that just under half of children under 5 in America are non-white. 2010 may be the first year when fewer white babies will be born than babies of color.Considering the...
View ArticleAmerican Cities Adapt to Shrinking Populations
Across America, dozens of towns have seen their populations shrink in the past few years. For cities like Detroit or Cleveland, the demographic decline started well before the economic downturn. For...
View ArticleAs Northerners Move South, Charlotte Sees Big Changes
All month, the federal government has been actively encouraging people across America to fill out the 2010 Census. The survey, which is distributed every ten years, may reveal that the demographics of...
View ArticlePatchwork Nation: Boom Towns
Dante Chinni, project director of Patchwork Nation and author of Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the "Real" America, uses statistical information to break the country into 12...
View ArticlePatchwork Nation
Each week in October, Dante Chinni, project director of Patchwork Nation and author of Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the "Real" America, reviews the way Americans group themselves...
View ArticleTea Party: The End of the Two-Party System?
Doug Schoen, former political strategist for Michael Bloomberg, and Scott Rasmussen, founder of the polling firm Rasmussen Reports discuss their new book Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is...
View ArticleSam Roberts' Three Most Interesting Census Tracts
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, Sam...
View ArticleCensus Workers Unable to Access 'Housing Underworld,' Some Say
As the city plans to challenge what it says are low census numbers by showing that many of the thousands of vacancies – namely in Brooklyn and Queens – were in fact occupied homes, some residents in...
View ArticleCensus Reveals Major Demographic Shifts for US Children
New data from the 2010 Census has revealed surprising facts about America’s children. Between 2000 and 2010, the number of Hispanic and Asian children in the U.S. grew by 5.5 million, while the...
View ArticleThe New Littles: Uzbeks, Liberians, and More
Each Thursday in June, the Brian Lehrer Show and Andrew Beveridge of Social Explorer will discuss New York’s diverse communities - areas of ethnic concentration that are changing quickly or that you...
View ArticleNew Littles: Ecuadorians, and a Call for Artists
Each Thursday in June, the Brian Lehrer Show and Andrew Beveridge of Social Explorer will discuss New York’s diverse communities - areas of ethnic concentration that are changing quickly or that you...
View ArticleNew Littles: Tibet and Brazil
Each Thursday in June, the Brian Lehrer Show and Andrew Beveridge of Social Explorer will discuss New York’s diverse communities - areas of ethnic concentration that are changing quickly or that you...
View ArticleMexican Immigration Slows
New York Times reporter, Damien Cave, talks about how immigration from Mexico is dropping as economic opportunity improves there, and Senior Demographer at the Pew Hisanic Center, Jeffrey S. Passel,...
View ArticleThe Un-Marrying Kind
Senior writer at the Pew Research Center, D'Vera Cohn, talks about the census numbers that show New York City as having a high percentage of unmarried women, and what it says about changing gender and...
View ArticleYoung, Low-Earning Independents Make Up Majority of Online Protest Traffic:...
Visitors to the Occupy Wall Street website tend to be young, identified as Independents and make less than $50,000 a year, according to a recent unscientific survey conducted in collaboration with the...
View ArticleThe South Carolina Primary Map
Patchwork Nation director, Dante Chinni, analyzes how the South Carolina primary vote broke down by demographics. Check out the Patchwork Nation results map below, and read more analysis from Dante...
View Article2012 Election Battleground Voter Groups
Latinos, non-college educated women, voters under 30. Molly Ball, national politics writer for The Atlantic and Jonathan Bernstein, political scientist who runs A Plain Blog About Politics, explain...
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