{"id":218,"date":"2011-09-16T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-09-16T18:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T22:44:20","slug":"why-americans-stopped-relocating-in-one-graph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/why-americans-stopped-relocating-in-one-graph\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans stopped relocating, in one graph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Migration from state to state increased sharply in the wake of World War II. It continued to creep up through the 1960s and 1970s, too. But moving started slowing down in the 1980s \u2014 and never stopped. \u201cBy most measures, internal migration in the United States is at a 30-year low,\u201d the NBER authors Raven Molloy, Christopher Smith and Abigail Wozniak write. \u201cMigration rates have fallen for most distances, demographic and socioeconomic groups, and geographic areas.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/why-americans-stopped-relocating-in-one-graph\/2011\/09\/16\/gIQAjlgfXK_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">Why Americans stopped relocating, in one graph &#8211; The<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/why-americans-stopped-relocating-in-one-graph\/2011\/09\/16\/gIQAjlgfXK_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migration from state to state increased sharply in the wake of World War II. It continued to creep up through the 1960s and 1970s, too. But moving started slowing down in the 1980s \u2014 and never stopped. \u201cBy most measures, internal migration in the United States is at a 30-year low,\u201d the NBER authors Raven&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,17,22],"tags":[96,95,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}