| ig Hair, southern accents, cowboy jeans, and | | | | has been hit hardest. When Hurricane Katrina |
| down home cooking’; think what you | | | | came and went in 2005, New Orleans lost more |
| want about Texas, but odds are you know some | | | | than 300,000 residents within a year, people |
| one who wouldn’t mind moving there. | | | | chose to leave rather than rebuild. And, since the |
| The statistics are in and not one but two cities in | | | | 2000 census New Orleans has posted a net loss |
| the U.S.’s largest State saw the biggest | | | | of more than 126,000 people, that is a staggering |
| increase in population in 2009. Experts in | | | | 9.6% of it’s population. With these figures |
| demographics are sure this move to the Lone | | | | in mind, the big easy could see its federal funding |
| Star State is mainly due to following; Texas has a | | | | come down from the $1.8 billion it received in |
| diversified economy, smaller run-ups in housing | | | | 2008, and it could loose one of its seven |
| prices, and fewer foreclosures. | | | | congressional seats. |
| To look at the big picture, the population of the | | | | Another city facing a bit of a struggle is Detroit, |
| United States has increased over 9% since the | | | | Michigan. The motor city was pummeled with the |
| 2000 census, making the population somewhere | | | | collapse of the motor vehicle industry and that |
| around 307 million people. Then again that figure is | | | | fact took a hard toll on the residents of the area, |
| an approximation on where experts believe that | | | | quite quickly the city faced upwards of 15.6% |
| the 2010 census will reach. This is influential | | | | unemployment. When people could no longer find |
| because, like we’ve all seen on the | | | | work to keep up their mortgages and feed their |
| commercials, the census determines the number | | | | families they moved, and in 2009 it is estimated |
| of people and their ages that are living in a certain | | | | that the Motor City lost more than 20,000 of its |
| area, that information translates to more federal | | | | residents, which is a staggering .05% of the |
| funding and representatives in congress. | | | | population. |
| In the past 10 years the city of Dallas, Texas has | | | | Last week, more than 120 Million census forms |
| had a population increase of almost 1.3 million | | | | were mailed to residential addresses across the |
| people, more than any other city in the US. | | | | nation, and census workers will continue to deliver |
| Because of these figures, the city stands to get a | | | | another 12 Million more. The nation will use these |
| big increase in federal funds, much more than the | | | | questionnaires and door-to-door visits to get an |
| $4 billion they received in 2008. And also, due to | | | | accurate headcount of the nation so that they |
| this increase, Texas stands to get three more | | | | can hammer down fair and accurate funding, |
| seats in Congress, totaling 25 house seats for the | | | | state and federal representation and other |
| lone star state. | | | | necessary aspects of the American picture. In |
| Now that we’ve talked about the places | | | | fact, Uncle Sam is pushing so hard for this, the |
| where the population is booming, who is on the | | | | Census Bureau is putting $133 million to increase |
| flip side of this picture, who is dealing with less and | | | | participation, now that is the government working |
| less residents on their streets. | | | | for you. |
| Over the past 10 years, New Orleans, Louisiana | | | | |