Immigrants Prop Up Metro Areas

The recession has brought a nation built on moving from place to place to a standstill not seen since World War II, but immigration continues in major metropolitan areas, according to a report out today.

“Migration overall is going to slow just for the simple reason that the population is getting older,” says Joel Kotkin, a fellow at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., and author of the upcoming The Next 100 Million: America in 2050. “People will be moving less for lots of reasons.”