The NYTimes has an interresting article on the relative relationship between death rates and birth rates in urban areas. The focus is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where one marker of the ascendency of dying over birthing is a dramatic drop in school children--in the past 20 years the number of children being served by the public schools has gone from 70,000 to 30,000!
Other loosers include Buffalo, and Utica, New York; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Duluth, Minnesota; and St. Petersburg, Florida.
But all is not lost. Municipalities where birth rates continue in the positive range of 2 to 3 births per 1 death include; Metro Washington D. C.; Columbus, Ohio; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; San José, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; and the Texas towns of Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston, El Paso, and Brownsville.
Not factored into the shifts are the influx of immigrants....
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