Social / Demographics

Seattle has vowed to close Tent City; residents say they won't leave.

First part of a three-part series about the rebirth of Appalachia.

Appalachia is 200,000-square-mile region that spans 13 states and is home to 22 million people.

Columnist Jill Stewart argues that the ugly secret about homelessness is that many homeless want to remain homeless.

The homeless population of Silicon Valley has grown by 23 percent in the last five years with families making up a growing segment.

Western City discusses disaster planning for vunlerable populations.

Can the U.S. sustain a population of 500 million -- or a even a billion -- by 2100?

MIR presents an exceprt between two prominent Civic Entrepreneur Summit participants: Richard Hollingsworth and Carol Whiteside.

New report by the Census Bureau based on 1998 data says families with both working parents are now a majority.

Study says California is unprepared for the implications of a predicted 22 percent increase in its teenage population.

"Nation's serious-crime rate fell to its lowestlevel in nearly 30 years in 1999.

CNN's outstanding series on the urban growth issues facing Atlanta focuses on the impact race has had on the city's growth.

A federal agency has warned Denver might find itself reliving the past if its rapid commercial growth doesn't slow down.

For the third consecutive year the nation's poverty rate dropped reaching the lowest level in two decades.

In a case being watched across the country, the State of Virginia asks a federal court to approve its new law requiring use of raw census numbers for redistricting instead of numbers statistically adjusted by the Census Bureau.

For the first time in history, the Census response rate improved over the immediately prior census with 67 percent of households returning Census forms. The Census Bureau presents lists of cities, counties, and states ranked by census response.

Contra Costa County officials are asking for public input on solving the growing problem of homelessness.

U.S. Census Bureau says 67 percent of households returned Census forms and the declining trend of census response has been turned around helped by an improved response from minority communities.

Bocce ball in the inner city? Sacramento Bee writer Bob Sylvia looks at new urbanism on an embattled street in a longtime Hispanic neighborhood.

The 1994 LA County ordinance was enacted to in response to complaints about day laborerscongregating around a building supplies store.