U.S. Migration Levels

Mar 23, 2009

C-SPAN | Washington Journal

William Frey talked about U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for counties and metro areas for July 1, 2008, and comparisons of this data over a one- and eight-year period. Some demographers attribute the decrease in domestic and international migration levels around the U.S. (the lowest since the Great Depression) to the economic recession .. Read More
William Frey talked about U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for counties and metro areas for July 1, 2008, and comparisons of this data over a one- and eight-year period. Some demographers attribute the decrease in domestic and international migration levels around the U.S. (the lowest since the Great Depression) to the economic recession and the weak housing market.

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00:00:09 Unidentified Speaker WASHINGTON JOURNAL CONTINUES. WILLIAM FREY IS A SENIOR FELLOW WITH THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION, HERE...
00:00:46 Unidentified Speaker FLORIDA, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF FLORIDA THAT THEY LOST MORE MIGRANTS THAN THEY GAIN....
00:01:52 HOST IS THIS AN ANNUAL STUDY?
00:01:56 GUEST THE RELEASE ESTIMATES EACH YEAR. THEIR MOST RECENTLY WON RELEASE IS FOR COUNTIES IN METROPOLITAN AREAS....
00:02:33 HOST THIS STUDY AND DOMESTIC MIGRATION. WHY IS THIS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE? WHY IT SHOULD WE SEE PEOPLE MOVING...
00:02:45 GUEST IT USED TO BE THAT THE MAIN REASON THAT PEOPLE MOVE ACROSS STATES WAS TO GET A BETTER JOB, OR MOVE...
00:03:22 HOST WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHY FOLKS ARE NOT MOVING AS MUCH BETWEEN STATES, AND WITHIN THE CITIES IN THOSE...
00:04:51 HOST YOU ALSO WROTE ABOUT THESE NUMBERS, THE CENSUS BUREAU. YOU LOOK AT MAINLY WESTERN OR SOUTHERN CITIES,...
00:05:23 GUEST THE BURSTING OF THE BUBBLE WE SOUGHT 2006-2007. THE NUMBERS WE HAVE NOW FROM 2007, AT 2008 MAKE IT...
00:05:40 HOST WHAT SORT OF HISTORICAL REFERENCE -- EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THIS BEING THE WORST ECONOMIC SITUATION...
00:05:55 GUEST WE HAVE STATISTICS GOING BACK TO 1937. IN THIS LAST YEAR WE HAVE HAD THE LOWEST RATE OF MOVEMENT IN...
00:06:29 HOST IS THIS A CONCERN FOR COMPANIES WHO WANT TO RECRUIT FROM OUT OF STATE?
00:06:35 GUEST YES. WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING FOR TALENT, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A STEADY FLOW COMING INTO...
00:06:59 HOST SOME GREAT CHARTS HERE FROM THE CENSUS BUREAU. YOU PUT TOGETHER THE DARKER STATES HERE, REDUCED OUT...
00:08:18 HOST THANK YOU.
00:08:21 GUEST BRINGING THIS INTO THE LOCAL STATES, I THINK THIS LAST YEAR, TWO-YEAR MIGRATION SLOWDOWN WILL COST...
00:08:59 HOST DETROIT NEXT. CALLER: I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ANYBODY THAT IS GOING TO BECOME A U.S. CITIZEN, AND BEING...
00:09:26 GUEST THE CENSUS BUREAU ALSO HAS IMMIGRATION FOR THE LAST YEAR, ESTIMATES OF IMMIGRANTS TO DIFFERENT PARTS...
00:10:10 HOST THE CALLER BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE OF BIRTH RATE. HOW IS THAT TIMED IN THE STUDY. THE 2007 BIRTH RATE...
00:10:25 GUEST IN THESE ESTIMATES, THEY HAVE NATURAL INCREASE. SOME OF THE UTAH METROPOLITAN AREAS, PROVO, WHERE...
00:11:26 GUEST YES, THAT IS PART OF THE EQUATION. PEOPLE WHO MIGHT WANT TO LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE, MIGHT NOT BE ABLE...
00:11:44 HOST THE WALL STREET JOURNAL LAST WEEK REPORTED ON YOUR STUDY, AND YOUR ANALYSIS OF ITS, SAYS THE CENSUS...
00:12:37 GUEST ALL OF IT IS WRAPPED TOGETHER. WANT TO HAVE AN ECONOMY THAT STARS DEFLATING, AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXTRA...
00:14:09 GUEST IN A NORMAL LABOUR MARKET AND NORMAL HOUSING MARKET, THE KIND OF SCENARIO THAT YOU SET UP IS PROBABLY...
00:14:37 HOST THIS IS A BIT OF A QUESTION ON CENSUS DATA. IS THERE ANYTHING POSITIVE ABOUT PEOPLE STAYING IN ONE...
00:14:53 GUEST IT IS NOT NECESSARILY BAD NEWS, ESPECIALLY FOR PLACES IN THE INDUSTRIAL MIDWEST, CLEVELAND, OR PITTSBURGH,...
00:15:15 HOST DOES THE DATA SHOW ANYTHING ABOUT AMERICANS' PREFERENCE FOR URBAN SETTINGS? FOR EXPANDING SUBURBS?...
00:15:26 GUEST THERE IS NOTHING IN THE STUDY ABOUT PREFERENCES, BUT WE DO KNOW UNTIL RECENTLY THERE WERE MUCH HIGHER...
00:16:02 HOST WILMINGTON, OHIO. CALLER: I AM PART OF THE DHL WHEN WE LEFT AMERICA. WE ONCE WERE THESE STRIVING,...
00:16:39 GUEST AND THE AREA THAT IS UNDERGOING AN ECONOMIC STRAW VOTE, IT IS VERY DIFFICULT. I AM SURE LEADERS OF...
00:17:08 HOST HOW WOULD THE CITY PLANNING BOARDS USED CENSUS DATA?
00:17:14 GUEST THE PLACES THAT ARE EXPERIENCING THE BIG GROWTH SLOWED DOWN WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MIGHT MEAN,...
00:18:04 HOST WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CENSUS STUDY ON MIGRATION. WE'RE LOOKING AT STATE POPULATION GROWTH BETWEEN...
00:19:04 HOST WE HAVE LIGHT OF THIS STUDY AND OUR WEBSITE. -- ON OUR WEB SITE.
00:19:16 GUEST IT IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A LABOUR FORCE THAT IS COMMENSURATE WITH THE TYPE OF OPPORTUNITY THAT...
00:20:41 HOST DOES THIS RELATE TO A CENSUS STUDY?
00:20:50 HOST TACOMA, WASHINGTON, IS NEXT. CALLER: I AM A CONSERVATIVE. WE'REI AM SOMEBODY WHO GREW UP IN SOUTHERN...
00:22:33 GUEST A LOT OF PEOPLE -- A LOT OF THE REASON PEOPLE LEFT CALIFORNIA AT THAT TIME WERE DEFENSE CUTBACKS,...
00:23:18 HOST BUTLER, CALLER: IS THERE ANY DATA SHOWING KATRINA, FROM LOUISIANA INTO TEXAS? CALLER: IF YOU LOOK...
00:24:21 HOST WHAT DOES THE STUDY SAY ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEACE THOSE? WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PRETTY MOBILE SOCIETY....
00:24:43 GUEST WE WERE PIONEERS, WHEN THEY WANTED TO MOVE FOR THE WEST, THE MOVE TO THE SUBURBS. IN RECENT YEARS,...
00:25:07 HOST IF YOU ARE IN FLORIDA, PLEASE SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT SILVER CITY, MEXICO, FOR RETIREMENT. -- SILVER...
00:25:27 GUEST PEOPLE DO MOVE DURING THEIR RETIREMENT YEARS. THERE ARE PLENTY OF WEB SITES, I AM SURE THE CHAMBER...
00:25:45 HOST WITH BABY BOOMERS HEADING INTO RETIREMENT, WILL THERE BE THAT MIGRATION TO FLORIDA? TO WARMER STATES?...
00:25:58 GUEST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE A MOBILE SOCIETY, AND THERE'S A HUGE RETIREMENT -- MIGRATION FOR RETIREMENT. PEOPLE...
00:26:38 HOST GERMANTOWN, MD., OUR LAST CALL. CALLER: I AM A YOUNG ART CITIZEN. I RECENTLY MOVED TO THE D.C. AREA....
00:27:21 GUEST TRADITIONALLY, IT YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS GRAVITATED TO URBAN ENVIRONMENTS WHERE THERE IS ENTERTAINMENT,...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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