U.S. population to top 320 million at start of 2015, Census reports
The U.S. population is expected to reach 320.09 million people on Jan. 1, 2015, a 0.73 percent increase from the previous year, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a statement Monday.
Is rural America a thing of the past?
The image of the families like the Joads from The Grapes of Wrath loading up their meager possessions and leaving the farm for the city is a powerful one in the American psyche. It’s almost as powerful as the image…
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How to Live Micro: Apartments for the New Single World
Cities are create micro-apartments for single living, smaller that previous laws allowed.
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World’s Biggest Power Blackout in Human History Strikes India
The second day of India's power grid failures were worse than the first. Nearly 1900 miles of India went dark, an area that is home to nearly half of India's 1.2 billion citizens. Judy Woodruff reports how the blackout is…
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The Census Bureau released a new unofficial count of poverty in America on Monday, showing about 16 percent of the population live at or below the poverty line. Ray Suarez discusses the new numbers with The Brookings Institution's Ron Haskins…
