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Michigans population has hovered around the 10 million mark for the past 20+ years, but the states latest report outlines projections of a population roller coaster which stops at the bottom. Michigan will have more than 230,000 more people in the next decade, and then decline by 128,000 from 2034 to 2050. Overall, the states population is expected to drop by about 700,000 in 26 years. ...

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There were an estimated 44,581 Latino individuals living in South Dakota as of 2022, or nearly 5% of the state population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

South Dakota’s Hispanic population more than doubled over the past 12 years and now helps keep many small towns vibrant, a trend seen in other rural areas of the U.S., according to census data and experts.

South Dakota’s Hispanic population more than doubled over the past 12 years and now helps keep many small towns vibrant, a trend seen in other rural areas of the U.S.

Sisters sexually abused by ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal Malka Leifer refuse to be swallowed by the darkness of what happened to them.

Sydney, Australia, June 28 (EFE).- Two sisters who were sexually abused by the former ultra-Orthodox principal of a Jewish school in Australia described on Wednesday the trauma they had suffered for several years due to that experience. “Malka Leifer stole my body, I was forced to sever the connection with my physical self. I did …

Some booming suburbs, many of them in the Sun Belt, are becoming as racially diverse as major coastal cities — and often with less racial conflict. Sixty-nine counties, mostly in the South and West, had clear racial majorities in 2010 but lost them by last year, according to a Stateline

New analysis found that 69 counties that had clear racial majorities in 2010 lost those divisions by last year; now there are 152 counties in which no single racial group is more than half the population.

In this guest commentary, U of M Extension Educator Ellen Wolter proposes that a more valuable discussion is how urban and rural communities need each other to function and prosper.