Over the toughest economic decade since the Great Depression, the nation’s core cities continued to gain more than their share of the below-poverty-line population in the 51 metropolitan areas with ...

There is considerable interest in urban core population trends, both because of recent increases in the interest of urban planning orthodoxy to restore living patterns more akin to the pre-World War ...

Des Moines has experienced rapid population growth, outpacing other major Midwestern metros. Concerns exist regarding slowing growth in Des Moines's core city and job losses in the finance sector.