Census 2020: First results show near historically low population growth and a first-ever congressional seat loss for California

[The Sisko]

59 minutes ago, GhostofSparta said:

Simple. Pass a law that makes it a crime for doctors to perform those procedures on white people before the age of, say, 40. As for minorities, well, that's what higher police budgets and more prisons (and prison slave labor) are for!

Actually, the latter point did cross my mind. After all, most of these women are having abortions because they know they’re not ready to be parents. Therefore most of these kids will end up in poverty which  is a serious risk factor for the stuff you mentioned. 

Edited July 22, 2022 by The Sisko

[China]

Half of all Americans live in the red counties, half live in the orange counties

 

[China]

Florida Leads US Population Growth for First Time in 65 Years

 

Florida, which has seen a surge in migrants since the onset of the pandemic, was the state with the fastest-growing population in 2022, taking top spot for the first time since 1957, Census Bureau data show.

 

Florida’s population increased by 1.9% to 22.2 million between 2021 and 2022, the data show, surpassing Idaho, which led last year. Florida had the second-largest numeric gains, behind Texas.

 

“For the third most-populous state to also be the fastest growing is notable because it requires significant population gains,” the bureau’s Marc Perry, Luke Rogers and Kristie Wilder said in a statement.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[China]

Persistent Poverty: Identifying Areas With Long-Term High Poverty

 

341 U.S. Counties Experiencing Persistent Poverty
 

About 10.9% of the nation’s 3,142 counties experienced high poverty rates for an extended period, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report on persistent poverty.

 

In this report, an area is considered in persistent poverty if it had a poverty rate of 20.0% or higher during the three decades period from 1989 to 2015-2019.

 

Persistent and chronic poverty are different; the former focuses on places with a long history of high poverty while chronic poverty is used to identify people consistently in poverty.

 

Research suggests people living in high poverty areas experience significant barriers to well-being whether or not they’re poor themselves. The longer poverty exists in an area, the more likely the community lacks adequate infrastructure and support services.

 

For that reason, government agencies want to identify areas with high rates of poverty over time to determine if they need support.

 

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) - The 10-20-30 Provision was previously used to define persistent poverty and to identify counties that experienced it. But federal agencies use a variety of definitions (with different years and data sources) that identify a different number of counties that need support.

 

This Census Bureau project provides several possible options to identify persistent poverty (About This Research below). It also expands on existing research by examining subcounty geographies down to census tracts. Drilling down to that level provides a more complete count of people living in areas of persistent poverty.

 

Counties With Persistent Poverty

The 341 counties identified in persistent poverty were not evenly distributed throughout the United States (Figure 1).

 

 

Over 80% were in the South and nearly 20% of all counties in the South were in persistent poverty. Many were clustered in informal subregions such as the Southwest border, the Mississippi Delta, the Southeast, Appalachia, and in some counties with higher amounts of American Indian and Alaska Native tribal lands.

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

[Larry]

1 hour ago, China said:

Persistent Poverty: Identifying Areas With Long-Term High Poverty

 

341 U.S. Counties Experiencing Persistent Poverty

 

Think I live in one of them.  

 

[tshile]

3 hours ago, Captain Wiggles said:

I haven’t dug further into the data than what is being presented. So. Total guess

 

 but I’m guessing a sizable chunk of that, isn’t actual conservatives. I’m willing to bet some of these are counties with a high concentration of minorities. They may not be voting for republicans. 

[Captain Wiggles]

Yeah I mean it's not like minorities have historically had their votes suppressed in the south or anything like that. 🙄

[China]

A record-high number of 40-year-olds in the US have never been married, study finds

 

 If you’ve made it to your 40th birthday without tying the knot, you’re not alone, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center.

 

A look at 2021 US Census Bureau data found a quarter of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married, the research center announced Wednesday.

 

The findings were a “significant increase” from the 20% of unmarried 40-year-olds in 2010, according to the study.

 

The Pew report found that 40-year-old men were more likely not to have been married than women and Black 40-year-olds were “much more likely” to have never wed than their peers of different races.

 

It also showed people of that age with at least a bachelor’s degree were less likely to have never walked down the aisle than 40-year-olds who had reached fewer educational milestones.

 

“One-third of those with a high school diploma or less had never married, compared with 26% of those with some college education and 18% of those with a bachelor’s degree or more education,” according to Pew.

 

The findings, which suggest a shift in Americans’ views of the importance of getting hitched, differed widely to the statistics reported decades ago in 1980, when just 6% of 40-year-olds had never married, Pew reported.

 

The research center conducted the analysis to look at how marriage rates have changed among 40-year-olds in the US from 1850 to 2021.

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

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It also showed people of that age with at least a bachelor’s degree were less likely to have never walked down the aisle than 40-year-olds who had reached fewer educational milestones.

 

🙋‍♂️

 

[Renegade7]

On 5/22/2023 at 7:19 PM, tshile said:

I haven’t dug further into the data than what is being presented. So. Total guess

 

 but I’m guessing a sizable chunk of that, isn’t actual conservatives. I’m willing to bet some of these are counties with a high concentration of minorities. They may not be voting for republicans. 

 

I bet that black strip across the middle of the south are concentrations of black people that are decendents from slaves that didn't leave the south.

 

Because it's a strip, it's only a minority through many of those states, and they are typically overwhelmed by Republicans down there, with gerrymandering helping to make that worse.

[China]

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’

 

We need more humans. That’s the message from two of the world’s richest billionaires, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

 

While the two compete in the space business—Bezos owns Blue Origin while Musk has SpaceX—they agree on certain aspect’s of humanity’s future.

 

“I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said on an episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast released this week. He added, “I don't really know Elon very well,” but he said that he liked the idea of forming a friendship with him.

 

Asked what he hoped for humanity’s future in outer space hundreds or thousands of years from now, he replied:

 

“I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins…Our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy.”

 

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And where are the resources going to come from to support that many people?

[Captain Wiggles]

Billionaires: "Plebs are needed." 🤣

[88Comrade2000]

More humans? No. We are overpopulated now. Frankly, humanity should be halved.

[The Evil Genius]

18 minutes ago, 88Comrade2000 said:

More humans? No. We are overpopulated now. Frankly, humanity should be halved.

 

Oh snap!

 

[88Comrade2000]

9 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Oh snap!

 

Where’s Thanos when you need him.

[Renegade7]

5 hours ago, 88Comrade2000 said:

More humans? No. We are overpopulated now. Frankly, humanity should be halved.

 

Folks having been saying stuff like that for longer then we've all been alive....

 

Coming from Bezos, it jus sounds like he wants more people to exploit.

 

It will be interesting to see if we reach some kind of population equilibrium...the danger is every country declining at same time, means there will be a bulge of larger older generations that countries younger generation can support.  That's a level of ugly we don't need.

[Califan007 The Constipated]

13 hours ago, China said:

 

We need more humans. That’s the message from two of the world’s richest billionaires, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

 

 

This is gonna thrill conspiracy theorists who all claimed Bill Gates wanted to control global population by killing people with the COVID vaccines lol...

[China]

NYC thinks Census Bureau estimates missed tens of thousands of asylum seekers

 

Three New York City boroughs lost almost 80,000 residents from people moving away last year, according to population estimates released Thursday, but city officials think those numbers are a vast undercount that doesn’t capture the influx of asylum seekers who came to the city.

 

The city rented out entire hotels to house some of the tens of thousands of migrants who came to New York City last year and also put cots in schools and temporarily housed people in tents, a cruise ship terminal and a former police academy building.

 

As many as 50,000 people were overlooked in the city’s shelters, according to city officials, who plan to challenge the 2023 population estimates with the U.S. Census Bureau.

 

“We wanted to flag it,” said Casey Berkovitz, press secretary for New York’s Department of City Planning. “Once you account for this underestimate ... the year marked a return to prepandemic levels.”

 

The three counties representing the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx in New York City lost 28,300 people, 26,300 people and 25,300 people respectively last year, according to the estimates. Even though births outpaced deaths and people from abroad moved into these counties, these factors couldn’t overcome an outflow of residents, though it was substantially smaller than in 2022.

 

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[Corcaigh]

The Census is a pretty sophisticated operation uses various techniques to estimate undocumented including data from at least 30 other government agencies. I wonder if this complaint is real or they are whining because the results they got aren’t what they like.

On 12/18/2023 at 6:14 PM, China said:

’We need more humans. That’s the message from two of the world’s richest billionaires, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

 

The Earth could support about 20 billion in a sustainable manner if we lived in a more resource conscious way. So Elon and Jeff can ditch their super yachts and space tourism.

 

if humans don’t want to do that then we would do better of the Earth’s population was about half current levels.