Colorado voters adopted a TABOR in 1992, which limits growth in state taxes and spending to the rate of growth of population plus inflation.
The main conclusion from this demographic work is that, barring a new increase in female labor force participation or a significant increase in the growth rate of the population, these demographic factors point towards a further decline in trend growth of employment and hours in the coming decades.
The Pew report says those trends should help propel the growth of the Asian population in the U.S. to 41 million in 2050, more than double its current size.
In 14 of the 20 countries studied, these increases in wealth outpaced the growth of their population, leaving per-person wealth higher in 2008 than in 1990.
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But while the country's energy intensity--the amount of energy required to produce a unit of economic growth--is improving, it is not improving enough to offset the pace of growth of the economy, the population and living standards.
The growth of human population, which Malthus believed had peaked during his lifetime, has risen relentlessly and rapidly over the past three centuries.
Mr Gardner reminds us that the growth of the population has been far outstripping the hopelessly inadequate level of new house building, while the number of people in employment has been rising.
Falling fertility has taken much of the urgency out of the debate about population growth, at least among experts, since it seems to be solving the problem of excessive births (a view criticised by Mr May, who points out that even if fertility has declined, the momentum of change means populations will go on rising for a while).
It means a slowing of the pace of growth to the west of London, giving way to more business and population growth in... the east of London.
Deputy Geoff Southern wants the proposal, which is set out in a States blueprint for the future, to be changed so growth of the working population is set at a quarter of what has been planned.
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"A negative is that the earnings growth is kind of limited to the population growth, " he said.
Consider that the bulk of the net growth in population is among older people.
This one comes from a paper, delivered at a NBER conference last month, on the supply dynamics of the housing boom and bust. (A hat tip goes to Benjamin Keys.) The authors crunched census data to compile the compounded annual growth rates of the population, smoothed out over five years.
Ethnically diverse Tower Hamlets in the East End has the highest population growth of any local authority, at over 26% in the past decade.
Much of the analysis of movements in house prices concentrates only on demand factors, such as interest rates and the rate of growth in population and incomes.
Because so many people emigrated the rate of population growth has been the lowest for three years.
The bulk of growth comes from the increase in our population of about 3 million people and the growing need to simply replace stuff that is wearing out, not enough to get the economy back to trend growth much less the strong growth needed to restore employment to 2007 levels.
The world's past wealth creation is outstripped every generation by innovation, human progress and the rapid growth of the above-subsistence population.
In fact, more than half of the growth in the total population of the United States between 2000 and 2010 was due to the increase in the Hispanic population.
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Without going into the specific reasons for immigration or their merits (or demerits), it is enough to note that the political leadership in the United States must consider the effects of population growth on natural resources and the environment as it considers immigration reform.
If births don't add to the population, and immigration isn't the whole story, accounting for around half of net population growth, where does the rest of America's growth come from?
"For a country that's aging, we need young workers, and the growth of the minority population will contribute to the size of the young adult workforce, " he said.
We want and need to have economic growth as that is the only way we know of to reduce population growth (quite apart from the fact that we also need it to abolish human poverty, something of a desirable goal).
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In the 1940s and 1950s, by extending the trends of population growth and food production, it was scientific fact that the world was on a collision course with massive starvation.
The UN's reason for naming a symbolic date as seven-billion day is to draw attention to the speed of population growth, with less than 13 years having passed between the six-billion and seven-billion milestones.
This means that on average, every year for the next 50 years, the world population will grow by about the number of people that live now in Italy, and total population growth over the next 50 years will be more than twice the size of the current population in China.
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That was just ahead of the rate of population growth (0.7%), but well behind the rate of economic growth (2.2%).
With the continued growth of the U.S. population, this lower supply is definitely having an effect on price.
The data, based off of births, deaths, administrative records and survey data, reflects the rate of population growth over the 12 months ending July 1, 2012.
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The combination of rapid population growth and changing diets may increase the demand for food by 70% by 2050, according to the recently released 4th UN World Water Development Report.
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