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Mapping America’s Futures. What will America look like in 2030?

Mapping America’s Futures

We can already see that the population is aging and becoming more diverse, but how will those trends play out at the local and regional levels? And what if, in the future, we live longer or have more babies? How would those trends affect the population in different cities and states? These demographic shifts matter a great deal to states and local communities. Las Vegas is scrambling to build enough schools to accommodate the city’s recent population boom. To help visualize the future, the Urban Institute developed a tool as part of the “Mapping America’s Futures” series that projects local-level population trends out to 2030 (the button on the right will take you there). The rates are all reasonable assumptions, based on historical trends. A future with more births and longer lives looks very different from one with fewer births and high mortality.

Top: Atanta, Shutterstock. Planning for growth and for decline:The futures of Atlanta and Youngstown. The top 10 baby names since 1880 - Visual Cinnamon. A Closer Look at the Different Occupations - Visual Cinnamon. Generation-X-vs-Y-vs-Z-workplace-edition.png (PNG Image, 720 × 4930 pixels) - Scaled (20%) Mapping the Most Common Races. It's been a challenge for me to fully understand what's been going on lately, so I find myself looking at a lot of data and maps.

Mapping the Most Common Races

It kind of feels like grasping at straws, but at least it's something. The map above shows the most prevalent race in each county, based on data from the 2013 American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Select and deselect to make various comparisons. Or, select just one race to see distribution. Pakistan-the-young-and-the-restless_55550db970e74_w1500.jpg (JPEG Image, 1500 × 984 pixels) - Scaled (68%) 13. koordinierte Bevölkerungsvorausberechnung. The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares. How much extra money a county causes children in poor families to make, compared with children in poor families nationwide.

The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares

Manhattan is very bad for income mobility for children in poor families. It is better than only about 7 percent of counties. Spanish-Language-Statistics-and-Facts-UnitedStates.jpg (JPEG Image, 555 × 1253 pixels) - Scaled (79%) Map of Most Common Race. Thumbnail-migrant-presence-europe.jpg (JPEG Image, 1191 × 842 pixels) - Scaled (85%) Life-odds-infographic.jpg (JPEG Image, 620 × 6823 pixels) - Scaled (14%) What-are-the-odds_50290d9b95578-700x2465.png (PNG Image, 700 × 2465 pixels) - Scaled (40%) Australia-Population-Map-Generational-Profile-2015_Infographic_McCrindle. GenZGenAlpha. Disposable-income-[550PX].png (PNG Image, 550 × 6465 pixels) - Scaled (15%) Disposable-income-[550PX].png (PNG Image, 550 × 6465 pixels) - Scaled (15%)

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Older-workers-business.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 2293 pixels) - Scaled (43%) Urban Population Map. Close Source United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Population Division special updated estimates of urban population as of October 2011, consistent with World Population Prospects: The 2010 revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2009 revision.

Urban Population Map

Graphic presentation of data based on The Guardian, 27 July 2007. This map is stylized and based on an approximate scale. It does not reflect a position by UNICEF on the legal status of any country or territory or the delimitation of any frontiers. Notes Because of the cession in July 2011 of the Republic of South Sudan by the Republic of the Sudan, and its subsequent admission to the United Nations on 14 July 2011, data for the Sudan and South Sudan as separate States are not yet available. Data for China do not include Hong Kong and Macao, Special Administrative Regions of China.

Data for France do not include French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte and Reunion. How-to-make-a-home-safe-for-older-people.png (PNG Image, 720 × 4175 pixels) - Scaled (24%) Marriage-comparison.png (PNG Image, 960 × 542 pixels) Infographic_5472dec92f173_w1500.jpg (JPEG Image, 1500 × 11976 pixels) - Scaled (8%) Missiographic-PopulationTrends.jpg (JPEG Image, 792 × 2016 pixels) - Scaled (49%) Human Development Indicators. 20th Century Death. Top-5-causes-of-death-in-us_541ab7dfdff60_w1500.jpg (JPEG Image, 1500 × 5306 pixels) - Scaled (18%)

Where We Came From, State by State. Foreign immigration is a hot topic these days, but the movement of people from one state to another can have an even bigger influence on the United States’ economy, politics and culture.

Where We Came From, State by State

Americans have already seen this with the Western expansion, the movement of Southern blacks to Northern cities and the migration from the Rust Belt. The patterns of migration continue to change. California, shown above, has long been the destination of American dreamers from other states. It no longer plays that role; residents are leaving for greener pastures out East. Today, the state is still pulling in foreign immigrants, but the percentage of American-born transplants has shrunk significantly as more people leave the state. States in the South that have traditionally been dominated by people who were born there are seeing significant in-migration for the first time.

The following charts document domestic migration since the turn of the last century, based on census data. Jobs Charted by State and Salary. The industries that people work in can say a lot about an area.

Jobs Charted by State and Salary

Is there a lot of farming? Is there a big technology market? Couple the jobs that people work with salary, and you also see where the money's at. You see a state's priorities. For example, look at California. For a drastic change, switch to Washington, D.C., where people who work in the legal and business sectors are much more common. Domestic-workers-worldwide-in-the-numbers_53a0876301317_w1500.jpg (JPEG Image, 1500 × 3258 pixels) - Scaled (19%) Ruvolo_infographic.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280 × 5318 pixels) FT_14.05.26_TopOriginsUSMap.png (PNG Image, 640 × 1095 pixels) 10-people-whose-lives-began-at-60-infographic. O-WOMEN-FACEBOOK-9001.jpg (JPEG Image, 900 × 4344 pixels) - Scaled (15. Women-in-workplace.jpg (JPEG Image, 900 × 2866 pixels) - Scaled (23%) Transfer-of-Wealth-Boomers_Infographic.jpg (JPEG Image, 800 × 3700 pixels) - Scaled (18%) Life expectancy at birth.

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For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap - Interactive Feature

But what is alarming is how these ailments overlap. A Venn diagram based on data from the study, by the National Center for Health Statistics in 2010, shows just how often these three conditions coincide in patients, and why this overlap is becoming an important new field of study. There are more than 733,000 people in American assisted living facilities. People move there when they, or their families, decide they need help with daily activities, like dressing, but don’t need the fuller medical services of a nursing home. The study found that more than half the residents are 85 or older. Forty-two percent of assisted living residents had dementia. But treating patients with multiple conditions can be very difficult.

Hannah Fairfield. Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably) If you're still confused about why "additional compensation" from football/basketball revenue is pretty much still state money, consider this example: Another highly-paid, revenue-generating public employee is the Chief Investment Officer, who manages a state's retirement fund.

Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)

In 2011, the (now-retired) Virginia CIO earned $733,500 from the state, putting him at #1 in his state's base salary database. The CIO's contract could have been structured like that of a coach, so he'd earn $133,500 from the state and draw $600,000 directly from the revenues that he generated from his investing. However, if these revenues came out to less than $600,000, he'd still be paid $600,000. If they came out to more then $600,000, he'd still be paid $600,000 (with a few bonuses thrown in). Did your comment say "could" because that last paragraph was a guess? It's a hypothetical. Death-rate-word-map_51b0f99353177.jpg (JPEG Image, 2449 × 1514 pixels) Your-home-city-at-a-glance_5152951cce6de.jpeg (JPEG Image, 800 × 3600 pixels)

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