Monday, January 14, 2008

Population & Planning: what data tell us about future



Don't worry about population growth. It's the aging of our population that will hurt our future unless we do something about it now. This is one of the wake-up calls that Ron Crouch, director of Kentucky State Data Center, delivered in a presentation loaded with more than numbers.

Crouch spoke Monday, Feb. 11 in Richmond City Hall Commission Chambers. Read Ronica Shannnon's Richmond Register story.

Housed at the University of Louisville, KSDC is the clearinghouse for census data for Kentucky and provides data on population, housing, education, employment and other social indicators.

To read more about Crouch's viewpoints, see Crouch's column "Hispanic immigration: A key to Kentucky's economic vitality" which appeared in the state Chamber of Commerce newletter last year. For more information about the Kentucky State Data Center: visit KSDC Web site .