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Population growth slowing across US

Fewer births, less immigration amid economic slump

By Hope Yen

 |  Associated Press  

  December 22, 2011

Many states that posted big population gains in the 2010 Census are now seeing their decade-long growth fizzle, hurt by a prolonged economic slump that is extending into larger portions of the South and West.

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