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Population Projections Show Texas Growth Increasingly Driven by Migration

New population projections from the Texas Demographic Center at The University of Texas at San Antonio show that Texas' long-term population growth will rely increasingly on migration as fertility rates decline and the population continues to age. READ MORE.

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Population Projections Show Texas Growth Increasingly Driven by Migration — By Texas Politics' Raeylee Barefield — New population projections from the Texas Demographic Center at The University of Texas at San Antonio show that Texas' long-term population growth will rely increasingly on migration as fertility rates decline and the population continues to age.

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