{"id":25409,"date":"2011-04-01T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_young_and_educated_show_preference_for_urban_living\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T18:00:10","slug":"usa_today_young_and_educated_show_preference_for_urban_living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25409","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Young and educated show preference for urban living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Educated 20- and 30-somethings are flocking to live downtown in the USA&#8217;s largest cities \u201d\u201d even urban centers that are losing population.<\/p>\n<p>In more than two-thirds of the nation&#8217;s 51 largest cities, the young, college-educated population in the past decade grew twice as fast within 3 miles of the urban center as in the rest of the metropolitan area \u201d\u201d up an average 26% compared with 13% in other parts.<\/p>\n<p>Even in Detroit, where the population shrank by 25% since 2000, downtown added 2,000 young and educated residents during that time, up 59% , according to analysis of Census data by Impresa Inc., an economic consulting firm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20110401\/1ayoungrestless01_st.art.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educated 20- and 30-somethings are flocking to live downtown in the USA&#8217;s largest cities \u201d\u201d even urban centers that are losing population. In more than two-thirds of the nation&#8217;s 51 largest cities, the young, college-educated population in the past decade<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25409\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,674,615,149,151,584,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-censuscensus-data","category-city-government","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-u-s-government","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}