The trend was fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as fewer births and an aging population. counties experienced a natural decrease from deaths exceeding births, up from 55.5% in 2020 and 45.5% in 2019. With the natural decrease, we will go back to normal.”īetween mid-2020 and mid-2021, there was a stark increase in deaths outpacing births across the country. “We’re at one of the lowest levels of immigration in a long, long time, and that affects big metros like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. There is clearly a dispersion, but I think it’s a blip,” said Frey, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s metropolitan policy program, Brookings Metro. Growth in micro areas was led by Kalispell, Montana Jefferson, Georgia and Bozeman, Montana.ĭemographer William Frey said he believes the growth of micro areas and decreases in the biggest metros will be temporary, taking place at the height of people moving during the pandemic when work-from-home arrangements freed up workers from having to go to their offices. The small population gains were driven by people moving there, as deaths continued to outpace births in many of these communities. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2021 estimates also showed micro areas - defined as having a core city of less than 50,000 residents - gaining population from mid-2020 to mid-2021, after years of slow growth or declining population. “Texas has a thing about it, a romantic thing, with cowboys, and there’s the idea here of the Lone Star State,” said Giusti in describing the lure of Texas. In the Phoenix metropolitan area, growth was driven by moves from elsewhere in the U.S., while it was propelled by a combination of migration and births outpacing deaths in Dallas and Houston. On the flip side, the Dallas area grew by more than 97,000 residents, Phoenix jumped by more 78,000 people and greater Houston added 69,000 residents, including Giusti. The San Jose, Boston, Miami and Washington areas also lost tens of thousands of residents primarily from people moving away. Metropolitan Los Angeles lost almost 176,000 residents, the San Francisco area saw a loss of more than 116,000 residents and greater Chicago lost more than 91,000 people from 2020 to 2021. It was driven by people leaving for elsewhere, even though the metro area gained new residents from abroad and births outpaced deaths. metropolitan areas was led by New York, which lost almost 328,000 residents. The pandemic intensified population trends of migration to the South and West, as well as a slowdown in growth in the biggest cities in the U.S. If you worked at Gap and also saved any of the paper playlists that came with each month's CD/tape, please share them with me.
Although I have recovered dozens of playlists thanks to the blog, there are still many more to go to reach my goal of re-obtaining the playlists that I lost. Eventually, I began my Gap Playlists blog in the hopes of attracting others who also saved the playlists from when they worked at Gap. It was devastating to realize that all of the playlists were gone forever. Shortly after I left Gap in February 2006, I lost the box that contained all of the playlists during a move. I wasn’t just interested in single songs but the playlists as whole entities. In the back of my mind, I planned to recreate all of the playlists on my iMac.
I would buy CDs with the songs I wanted, plus buying individual songs form iTunes starting in June 2005, while ever-so-slowly putting together playlists on my computer. I stored the playlists in a small cardboard box that was once used in visual displays at Gap in 1995.
I collected almost every single playlist from the Gap brand from June 1992 to February 2006, as well as most GapKids and babyGap playlists from May 1998 to February 2006 and many GapBody playlists from 2000 to 2004. So many different kinds of songs you would never hear on any radio station were superbly mixed together by AEI Music and Muzak for Gap. One of the highlights of working at Gap was the variety of music that played on the in-store tapes (later, CDs).