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Be Informed Lecture Series-Is it me or are there less people here? Explaining population decline.

  • Clark Sports Center 124 County Road 52 Cooperstown, NY, 13326 United States (map)

New York City hit the highest population ever recorded in the last census, but Otsego County lost 6 percent of its population during the same period. How is this possible? Join Dr. Alex Thomas, environmental demographer and executive director of the PLACES Institute at SUNY Oneonta, as he explores the relationship between metropolitan growth, second homeownership, and our own population troubles. How do these trends affect taxes, the environment, and school enrollment? And what, if anything, can be done?

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