Posted on 12/22/2011 12:29:18 PM PST by Hunton Peck
The population of the District of Columbia is growing faster than that of any state in the country, according to a new U.S. Census report that shows an acceleration of a trend in which largely skilled and educated workers have flocked to the city’s resilient local economy and its well-paying jobs connected to the federal government.
The city added 16,000 residents between April 2010 and July of this year, more than half as many as it added in the entire previous decade, the report said.
In all, the District has added more than 45,000 residents since 2000, the nadir of a 50-year slide in which nearly a quarter-million residents fled the urban center and crime and poverty increased.
Jim Dinegar, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, said that in the midst of a national economic downturn that began in earnest in 2008, the city has become attractive to job seekers because the federal government and government contractors have not been forced to make the large-scale layoffs seen in the private sector.
“I think you have a strong desire for people to live close to where they work,” Mr. Dinegar said. “And it’s not just young professionals. It’s all across the board.”
The District’s population grew by 2.7 percent since the 2010 census, outpacing the country’s fastest-growing state, Texas, which grew by 2.1 percent, equal to 529,000 more residents. It was the first time since the early 1940s that the District, which for the purposes of the survey was counted among the states, led the states in growth.
Utah had the next-fastest growth at 1.9 percent. The District’s population grew at more than double the rate of 42 states, including Maryland and Virginia, whose populations increased by 0.9 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively.
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The pigs are lining up at the trough.
DC itself, no. You couldn’t pay me enough to live there. Now the suburbs, yes.
As any hog farmer can tell you, fill the troughs and the pigs will come running.
Bad sign. Even in my childhood, I somehow knew that it was a good thing that Washington D.C. wasn’t the “main” place. I somehow knew that was a sign of of freedom from big government.
Bad sign. Even in my childhood, I somehow knew that it was a good thing that Washington D.C. wasn’t the “main” place. I somehow knew that was a sign of freedom from big government.
I’m just guessing here, but could it be possible that some of the increase is due to all the new obama czars and their overrated staffing requirements??
Yep. The Takers have beaten the Makers.
Washington DC is the new Rome, to where all tribute flows.
Many cities are depopulating. I wish DC was one of them.
They are the 1%, they are the robber barons, they are the ones who produce NOTHING
The story proves that the only growth “industry” in the country is government employment and all associated “industries” such as lobbying which in itself indicates that it is no longer what you do and accomplish but rather in who you know and can influence. We have become a true Third-World Banana Republic.
bump
Good News! There are a whole lot of people in this country that need to be in DC. How about the entire State of California to start.
This is crap. But just wait till all these rats have to leave after we take over!!!!!
Close a few bureaus down. Move a few bureaus to ‘flyover’ country. Eliminate the commerce clause from the constitution. Get a balanced budget ammendment. Poof, problem solved.
Get your welfare checks quicker there.
People tend to go to where there's money. Large sums of money.
Especially crooks, cons, charlatans, thieves and all their entourage.
Why did you move to D.C.? As Willie Sutton didn’t say, “That’s where the money is.”
Why did you move to D.C.? As Willie Sutton didn’t say, “That’s where the money is.”
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