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As Deaths Outpace Births, Cities Adjust
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem May 18, 2008 01:44pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Sunday, May 18, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By SAM ROBERTS and SEAN D. HAMILL
Published: May 18, 2008
PITTSBURGH — This city has passed a grim demographic milestone: More people are dying here than are being born.
What demographers call a natural decrease has been occurring for years in tiny rural towns and in some retirement meccas in the South. But the phenomenon is relatively new in metropolitan areas in the Northeast, the Rust Belt of the Middle West and Appalachia.
Hospitals are closing obstetrics wards and converting them to acute care. Local governments and other social service providers are adjusting to the emergence of entire neighborhoods where the average age is soaring, and private foundations are awarding scholarships to retain students and attract new ones.
In Pittsburgh, public school enrollment plummeted from about 70,000 two decades ago to about 30,000 and continues shrinking by about 1,000 a year.
“At a certain point the school system becomes no longer viable,” said Grant Oliphant, the new president of the Pittsburgh Foundation, which is overseeing a program that provides college scholarships worth up to $40,000 for any student who has attended the city’s public schools since the ninth grade and graduates from high school with a grade point average of at least 2.0. |
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