Economy 4.0

The Middle of America, On the Move Again

Dash Wasserman Mar 24, 2011

The mean center of population distribution changes every time the census data is recorded, and it looks to have moved from the past decade.

David Brancaccio says the middle of the country moves every ten years and he talks about how our nation’s population is gravitating on the Marketplace Morning Report:

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