Intro/Outro: “America,” by Neil Diamond

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Discussed:

Jonathan Burkham

Migrant Midwest

Ed Glaeser – “Human Capital Follows the Thermometer,” New York Times, April 19, 2011

Civic Federation’s report “Chicago's Budget Growth: 2019–2025”

Minneapolis’ resilience and defense of its Somali community against ICE raids

Springfield, Ohio – myths and realities about its Haitian population

Milwaukee – population trends 1960-2024

Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s 2014 call for 50,000 visas

Michigan’s population growth, 2021-2025

Nick Reding, “Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town”

Canadian Provincial Nominee Program

Backlash to the CPNP + no housing growth

Canada’s population decline – 102,000 in 2025, the first since Confederation in 1867

Allan Mallach – Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World – Unfrozen 61 

Jesse Keenan – North – Unfrozen 108

“Climate-proof Duluth” 

Daryl Fairweather, Redfin chief economist, new resident of Williams Bay, WI

National Association of Realtors migration trends 2024