Tag Archives: rustbelt

Map of the Day: Workforce Population Change, 2010 – 2040

Demographics
Economics
Maps

Bill Lindeke • June 7, 2016

Here’s an interesting map from a blogpost by the terrific Chicago-based writer, Aaron Renn. The map comes from a Pew Charitable Trust report that offers some population projections. This one shows the “workforce” data, the number of people in the peak working demographic of 25-54. Here you go: It’s interesting to me because Minneapolis / […]

Chart of the Day: Urban Growth vs January Temperature (US)

Climate

Bill Lindeke • April 28, 2015

Here’s a chart from a NY Times story about how growth continues in the sunbelt cities, and not so much in the Northern parts of the country: For the record, the Twin Cities are growing faster than many other cities in the midwest or upper midwest, but the take-away from the Times piece is this: […]