The Pioneer Institute is cautioning that the Census Bureau’s report that a surge in the number of Bay Staters was only driven by a better way of counting humanitarian migrants, not any change in the state’s affordability issues.
The population of Massachusetts shrunk by nearly 8,000 people between July 2021 and July 2022, a drop of about 0.1 percent, but the newest estimate released in fresh data from the U.S. Census Bureau puts the state’s population ahead of its revised 2020 Census level.
Census data confirms anecdotal evidence from real estate agents statewide: Significant numbers of Greater Boston workers chose longer commutes over more expensive housing closer to the urban core.
Greater Boston grew its housing stock at by 6.2 percent over the last 10 years, according to new Census Bureau data analyzed by apartment rentals website Apartment List, but it wasn’t nearly enough to accommodate job growth over the same time period.
It’s a brief pause on a trajectory of diminishing political pull that is only headed down unless we can rein in the high cost and high hassle of living in Greater Boston
Massachusetts will retain all nine of its U.S. House seats following the release of new Census Bureau data Monday that showed the state’s total population topping 7 million for the first time, up from 6.5 million in the 2010 census.
American retail sales grew surged in May after a dismal April, offering some encouraging news about the prospects of economic recovery and delivering a potential glimpse toward the near-term future in Massachusetts, where reviving public activity has lagged other parts of the nation.
U.S. employers added a solid 128,000 jobs in October, a figure that was held down by a now-settled strike against General Motors that caused tens of thousands of workers to be temporarily counted as unemployed.
The federal government is calling on businesses across the country to report 2017 year-end sales or revenue, employment and payroll information by next week as part of an economic census conducted every five years.
