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More Deaths Than Births Killing US Counties Like Coleman, Texas

Coleman, Texas, lies in the vast empty reaches of the Texas range, like a lonely outpost at the junction of U.S. Highways 84 and 283 and Farm Road 93. If you were to stand at that crossroads, it would be hard to envision how populated the Lone Star state has become. Texas added more new residents in the past years than any...

Can Anything Be Done to Help Cities Like Detroit?

Even for those who watched the long, slow decline of Detroit, the new census count stunned: The one-time powerhouse of the industrial Midwest lost 25 percent of its population in the past 10 years, falling below 715,000 residents. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing moved swiftly to announce the city would challenge the accuracy of...

Why a Declining US Population Would Be a Good Thing

(Aug. 9) -- In his Monday op-ed column for The Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson worries about American population decline. Though there's a fertility rate of 2.1, Samuelson worries that the nation's economic policies will push the rate below 2 and America will become more like Italy (1.3) or Japan (1.2). Writes...