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A memo to New Hampshire and Maine politicians: While it doesn't appear the Census Bureau's 2009 population estimates suggest the state will lose a U.S. House seat soon, it could be another story 10 years from now, a prominent demographer says.
"If this pattern of extremely low growth continues, it would not surprise me at all if we lost one of the congressional seats in 2020," said Peter Francese, a demographic forecaster with the New England Economic Partnership. "I think both states are vulnerable."
..."The U.S. as a whole is growing at approximately 1 percent per year," he said. "The last time I looked, New England was growing at approximately 1/10th of 1 percent per year."
But before you get too worked up:
"Not in my lifetime," [Clark Bensen, the founder of Polidata] said of the chance that either state could lose a House seats.
On a more fundamental level, what does our aging population mean for New Hampshire as a whole? What challenges will it offer, and how do we need to modify what we do to thrive?
