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Obama's gain in voting margin over Kerry

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Notes: 
Point swing towards Obama in voting margin vs. Kerry's margin in 2004
Source: 
Election data courtesy Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Poll data courtesy of Pollster.com, extracted 9/8/08

USA/Canada Economic Summit Agenda


October 7, 2008
October 6, Pre-summit Event
Alerus Center & Canad Inns Destination Center
Grand Forks, North Dakota


 
 
 
   

Pre-summit event - October 6

3:00 – 5:00 Pre-Summit Tours

  • UND Aerospace
  • Research Enterprise and Commercialization Park (REAC)
  • Canad Inns Destination Center
  • Others TBD

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Zina Klapper

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Deputy Editor

Zina Klapper is a Los Angeles-based writer/editor/consultant who has worked with Joel Kotkin in multiple aspects of report presentation. Her journalism background includes stints creating public presentations for the Levy Economics Institute, as Managing Editor of Mother Jones, as an investigative reporter for RCM Capital Management, and as a senior editor at Playgirl. Her writing has appeared nationwide, including Women Ascendant: Where Females Are Rising the Fastest, co-written with Joel Kotkin, at Forbes.

Paul R. Levy

Chris Bradford

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Chris Bradford

Austin attorney and blogger on urban economics.

Austin, Texas

Migration Patterns of Empty Nest Baby Boomers, 2000-2005

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Notes: 
Number is percent share moving to each type of geography.
Source: 
Source: Gary V. Engelhardt, “Housing Trends Among Baby Boomers”, Research Institute for Housing, 2006

Household Type Distribution among cities, suburbs, and rural areas, 2006

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Source: 
U.S. Census American Community Survey

Population Age Concentrations, Manhattan, 2006

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While Manhattan has only 10% fewer children under the age of 5 than the rest of the nation, it trails more drastically with school-age children. Manhattan is dominated by those in their late 20s and 30s, with more than 60% more 30-34 year-olds than the norm.
Source: 
U.S. Census American Community Survey

Andrew Kirby

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Andrew Kirby

Andrew Kirby is editor of the interdisciplinary Elsevier journal “Current Research on Cities” [www.elsevier.com/locate/croc]. His research on suburbs and privatization has appeared in a number of inter/disciplinary journals. He has lived and worked in the UK and several US States; he is a longtime observer of urban issues in Arizona.

Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix Concentration of Age Groups, 2006

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Notes: 
Location Quotient is the ratio of the local concentration (percent share) to the national concentration.
Source: 
U.S. Census 2006 American Community Survey