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Recession slows migration from rural communities (access required)

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Published: July 2,2009
Time posted: 1:00 am

The national recession not only reduced migration to Idaho from other states and countries in 2008, but it slowed the exodus of people from Idaho’s rural communities, new U.S. Census Bureau estimates indicate.   Between mid-2007 and mid-2008, 69 of Idaho’s 200 cities either experienced no population growth or modest population losses.  According ...



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