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By the Numbers: County Population Estimates Defy Earlier Trends

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Is the sudden, recent population growth in older, more urbanized counties in the Northeast a short-term phenomenon? Or has the exodus from New York City and northern New Jersey to the Pocono counties of northeastern Pennsylvania run its course?
The Census Bureau recently released county population estimates for 2009, and some of the results […]

Non-English-Speakers More Common in NJ than Nationally

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

image source: United Nations
The Census Bureau has just released new data on people age 5 and older who speak a language other than English at home.   The press release mentions New Jersey twice, as being among the states with the highest percentages of speakers of Slavic languages and of Korean.
A quick analysis of the linked […]

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