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Hurt by aging US and fragile economy, 1 in 3 counties now dying; immigrants avert some losses

Article by: HOPE YEN , Associated Press
Updated: March 13, 2013 - 11:59 PM

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pkalninMar. 14, 13 8:57 AM

Is every instance of local population decline the equivalent of "dying"? If a given county is suffering from bad economic conditions, that's a real problem. But population can't grow forever. Do we really want to be as crowded as Japan? Or Bangladesh? Managing a leveling-out of the US population would be good public policy in the long run. Who wants to see 800 million Americans in a world with 20 billion people fighting over its resources?