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Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images Low-tax states, especially Florida, are getting wealthier as a result. BofA says 'tax migration' is far from a settled area but evidence of it is adding up. Tax-induced migration was a key part of the narrative of 2020, but the story actually began long before that. Lower-tax states are continuing to get richer thanks to a steady influx of new residents from higher-tax states, per a recent Bank of America Research note, which looked at recently released IRS data for tax returns from 2019, reflecting 2018 earnings. The data showed that...
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Art Wager/Getty Images Large-city suburbs saw the biggest gain in residents during the pandemic migration, per Jefferies. This will give nearby cities a needed economic boost, but it's making the suburbs a cutthroat place. Most urbanites moved to these suburbs or temporarily, making the migration more of a reshuffle. 2020 was the year urbanites took flight. But many of them didn't go very far. The pandemic's great migration boom mostly consisted of urban dwellers leaving big cities for its directly outlying suburbs, according to a recent Jefferies note that analy...
Brookings forecasted fertility rates based on age cohorts and found lower lifetime fertility. The trend follows a decade of declining births and falls in line with worldwide birth patterns. Today's baby bust looks unlikely to turn into a delayed baby boom. That's according to the latest research from Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip Levine at the Brookings Institution, who say that births in the US are unlikely to rebound. The research comes on the heels of a recent CDC report that found the US birth rate fell by 4%, the sharpest single-year decline in nearly 50 years and the lowest number of b...