Top headline: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 11/27/2022
Demographics: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
Bottom headline: Aberdeen News, 8/18/2022
In many rural areas, more people working is becoming a mission impossible, as population growth stagnates or slips and the people who remain age out of the workforce. In Lac qui Parle County in western Minnesota, the population since 1960 has fallen by about half, and half the people remaining in the county are 50 or older, according to the latest census figures.
“If you do the math, there are three choices that we have as a society,” Kashkari explained, as a panel discussion on immigration got underway at the Worthington fire hall. “One choice is just accept slower growth. A second choice is to subsidize fertility. Or No. 3, you can embrace immigration.” [emphasis added]
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