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Last week, the Census Bureau said that the last decade’s population growth was the slowest in generations. Also last week, President Joe Biden addressed Congress and laid out a wide-ranging, multi-trillion dollar economic agenda.
The two developments are tightly related.
For much of the United States, a demographic crisis and an economic crisis are two sides of the same coin. In many cities and regions, a shrinking population reduces the tax base, leading to underinvestment and deterioration of the physical environment and public services, causing even more jobs and people to go elsewhere.
Part of the aspiration of Bidenism a through-line in the pandemic rescue plan already enacted, and in major proposals for spending on infrastructure and family support is to break that cycle. Mayors and others focused on the development of places that have experienced economic and demographic languishing see a distinct opportunity to use federal money to fix problems long in the makin
Replacement theory has it all backward
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Code Louisville mentor Daniel Roberts, center, answers a question from student Robert Barhan during a class at Southern Indiana Works in New Albany.
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John Collins, foreground, a student taking a weekly class at Southern Indiana Works in New Albany, gets helps with a program from Code Louisville mentor Daniel Roberts.
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Students in the class said coding attracted them because it’s applicable to many parts of daily life.
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Floyd County Commissioner John Schellenberger described the final insurance package that was approved as a good deal for the county.