The new projections — the first set based on the 2010 Census — paint a picture of a nation whose post-recession population is growing more slowly than anticipated, where the elderly are expected to make up a growing share of the populace, and that is rapidly becoming more racially and ethnically diverse.
Detroit's financial challenges -- the decline of the American auto industry, the impact of the global economic recession, declining population and an erosion of the municipal tax base -- are key to understanding what led this great city to an inability to provide basic city services, or to carry out the normal functions of a municipality.
The effect of the recent world recession on population health has featured heavily in recent international meetings.
The census estimates released Thursday also quantified the impact of the recession on former population magnets.
Most have simply worked to forestall change while Japan's problems accumulated, from repeated recession and shrinking population to rampant bankruptcies and exploding public debt.
But he opposes opening the market in electricity distribution, which Eduardo Bhatia, the Senate president, thinks would cut energy costs by $2 billion a year.If the governor cannot reverse the spiral of recession, austerity and population loss, Puerto Rico's debts will become intolerable.
Despite fears that independent workers would return to "traditional" employment as the economy recovered from the Great Recession, the independent population continues to grow -- nearly twice as fast as U.S. employment, according to MBO Partners 2015 State of Independence in America, the industry's only comprehensive dive into five years of independent workforce data.
Our strong job growth in the 1990's is also a useful reminder that job growth does eventually resume after recessions, provided the population is growing.
Meanwhile, the Syndicate, a multinational group of ex-operatives, has started to wreak havoc across the globe, because that's what the world needs to recover from recession, or over-population, or the X-Factor, or something.
Is the thinned population the recession or an indication that there might be fewer movies clogging screens?
You couldn't help wondering, Is this thinned population the recession or a sign of a correction — an indication that there might be fewer movies clogging screens?
