In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Moreover, birth rates are notoriously hard to change, and efforts to do so often ...

The Southeastern U.S. was responsible for nearly 90 percent of the population growth that occurred in rural America last year, a Daily Yonder analysis of 2023 Census Bureau data shows. From 2022 to ...

Sometimes numbers don’t tell the whole story. The latest state population update might qualify as a case in point. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures, most Massachusetts communities ...