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Dispatches from Seattle, a growing city

News that Chicago lost 200,000 residents, many from economically depressed neighborhoods, got significant coverage in the news–as did the booming Chicago suburbs and sunbelt cities. But Edward Glaeser, who gave Chicago generally good marks in his latest book, writes from Seattle, one of the only non-sun-drenched cities to have grown faster than the U.S. population [...]

Household mobility strengthens in 2009

Just over 12 percent of U.S. households moved in 2009, slightly higher than the year before, but the percent of households moving out of state remains the lowest in over ten years. For the second year in a row, the percent of households moving out of state was just 1.6 percent, down from an average [...]