{"id":169,"date":"2006-10-12T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubasek.com\/blog\/lifelong_learner\/?p=169"},"modified":"2006-10-12T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T15:01:15","slug":"the-face-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"The Face of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US is growing. That&#8217;s a fact. It is a nation of 300 million! It&#8217;s madeup of many nations blended together. I think that the most amazing thingabout the US: the ability to mix many nations and races, and still have a safeenvironment. I came across a great article on Yahoo: what US iscomposed of, and what it will look like in the future. A good read &#8211;link below.<\/p>\n<p>I extracted some interesting parts from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The&nbsp;US population&nbsp;moves past 300 million- expected to happen in the next few days <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.kubasek.com\/blog\/2006\/population_rise.gif\" \/><\/li>\n<li>There will be 400 million Americans in 2043<\/li>\n<li>2050, non-Hispanic whites will have dwindled from 69percent to a bare majority of 50.1 percent<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Hispanic will have doubled to 24 percent<\/li>\n<li>Asians also will have doubled to 8 percent of thepopulation<\/li>\n<li>African-Americans will have edged up to 14 percent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Americans are expected to continue to gravitate west andsouth<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>the West and South have been growing two to three timesas fast as the Northeast and Midwest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>A person born in 1967, when the population turned 200million, could be expected to live 70.5 years.<\/li>\n<li>Life expectancy for those born today is 77.8 years<\/li>\n<li>As the US moves toward 400 million people, Americans can beexpected to marry later in life, and more of them will live alone.<\/li>\n<li>Between 1970 and 2005, the median age of first marriagemoved from 23 to 27 for men and from 21 to 26 for women.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>the percentage of single-person households grew from 17percent to 26 percent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Reference<br \/><\/span>Thenext 100 million and the face of America<\/a>, Yahoo News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US is growing. That&#8217;s a fact. It is a nation of 300 million! It&#8217;s madeup of many nations blended together. I think that the most amazing thingabout the US: the ability to mix many nations and races, and still have a safeenvironment. I came across a great article on Yahoo: what US iscomposed of, and what it will look like in the future. A good read &#8211;link below. I extracted some interesting parts from the article: The&nbsp;US population&nbsp;moves past 300 million- expected to happen in the next few days There will be 400 million Americans in 2043 2050, non-Hispanic whites will have dwindled from 69percent to a bare majority of 50.1 percent Hispanic will have doubled to 24 percent Asians also will have doubled to 8 percent of thepopulation African-Americans will have edged up to 14 percent Americans are expected to continue to gravitate west andsouth the West and South have been growing two to three timesas fast as the Northeast and Midwest A person born in 1967, when the population turned 200million, could be expected to live 70.5 years. Life expectancy for those born today is 77.8 years As the US moves toward 400 million people, Americans can beexpected to marry later in life, and more of them will live alone. Between 1970 and 2005, the median age of first marriagemoved from 23 to 27 for men and from 21 to 26 for women. the percentage of single-person households grew from 17percent to 26 percent ReferenceThenext 100 million and the face of America, Yahoo News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}