With a perfect storm of aging residents, low birth rates, COVID-19 deaths and immigration cutbacks, 16 states saw population decreases last year as the United States experienced the slowest national population growth since the Great Depression.
The nation grew only about 7% between 2010 and 2020, similar to the previous historic low between 1930 and 1940, according to new Census Bureau estimates, which do not reflect the 2020 census counts. The agency will release the final 2020 census tally in March.
California, Massachusetts and Ohio had been growing throughout the past decade until last year, while Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania began slides in 2019. Longer-term losses continued for Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia.
City unveils efforts to support young adults amid coronavirus pandemic
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
New York City has announced new initiatives to bring young adults opportunities to go to college or get a job. This file photo shows College of Staten Island graduates during a commencement ceremony prior to the coronavirus pandemic. (Staten Island Advance/ Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. New York City will work to support youth and young adults including both current students and those who are out of school and unemployed as they overcome the challenges of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.
We asked experts what’s plausible (Salwan Georges/Christopher Smith/The Washington Post; Lily illustration) Anne Branigin
Jan. 20, 2021
When President Biden took his oath of office on Wednesday, the most diverse administration in U.S. history came into power. It has done so at a time of multiple crises: The coronavirus has spiraled, even as vaccination efforts are underway. A massive economic downturn has disproportionately driven women out of the workforce most of them Black and Latina. And while Donald Trump is out, Trumpism continues to roil the country.
Still, many advocates say they are hopeful a new administration will bring policy changes that could have direct impact on the lives of millions of American women, pointing most recently to Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic and health-care relief package, unveiled Thursday.
Constance B. Moore has been appointed as chair of its board of directors. Moore, who has served as an independent director on Columbia’s board since 2017, succeeds John L. Dixon, who has served as chair since 2012 and as a member of Columbia’s board of directors since 2008. Dixon has elected to step down as chair but will continue as an independent director on the board. Moore has more than 40 years of experience in the real estate industry, most recently serving as president, CEO, and a board member of BRE Properties. She previously held executive positions with Security Capital Group & Affiliates.
How police failures let a violent insurrection into the Capitol
Decisions made long before rioters stormed Congress cast the die for the security collapse, which played out in critical points analyzed by USA TODAY.
Cara Kelly, Daphne Duret, Ramon Padilla, Erin Mansfield, Stephen J. Beard and Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY
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8:52 pm UTC Jan. 15, 2021
President Donald Trump was still in the midst of an incendiary speech outside the White House last Wednesday when some of his supporters began milling around the front of the U.S. Capitol a mile and a half away.
More followed in waves, their ranks soon multiplying into an angry crowd of thousands who felled the temporary perimeter fencing as if it were made of toothpicks and charged toward the marbled facade.