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** Tracking growing state populations
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The nation’s population increases annually via births and immigration, but this growth occurs unevenly throughout the country. How has your state grown? USAFacts has the numbers on how state populations ([link removed]) have fluctuated over 21 years.
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* Nevada’s population increased by 56% from 2000 to 2021, the most of any state. Utah and Idaho were the only other states with growth rates above 45%. West Virginia was the only state to lose population over this period, dropping by slightly more than 1%.

* Regionally, the Midwest and Northeast had less domestic migration and fewer births since 2000 than the South and West.

* Deaths were the second-largest driver of population growth differences from 2020 to 2021. The populations of West Virginia, Alabama, Maine, and Mississippi passed away at a rate of 0.3 percentage points higher than the annual average population loss due to deaths from 2000 to 2019.

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Is there a teacher shortage?

Teacher shortages are difficult to quantify given the current data. Shortages existed before the pandemic, particularly in the bilingual, special, and early education fields. Government data is lacking, but here is what's available ([link removed]) .
* The federal government tracks job openings and people leaving the education field, but those figures include teachers, as well as administration and support staff. However, the Education Department tracks how many people are enrolled in teacher preparation programs. This can help measure overall interest in teaching and whether future teacher shortages are likely.

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* Program enrollment fell 16% between the 2008–09 and 2019–20 school years. In half of states, enrollment rates dropped by 25%, higher than the 16% nationwide drop. In Oklahoma, enrollment dropped the most: 82%.

* Teacher shortages in Missouri and Texas led some schools to shorten their school weeks — an incentive to recruit and retain teachers — while extending the school day. For example, the Athens, Chico, Devers, and Jasper school districts in rural Texas recently switched to four-day weeks.

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The road to energy independence

US domestic energy production has increased faster over the past decade than any other time in history. But is the nation energy independent ([link removed]) ? That depends on your perspective.
* The country currently exports more energy than it imports, so by this metric, the US reached energy independence in 2019. But a more comprehensive definition of energy independence means phasing out all foreign energy imports. The nation imports foreign crude oil and cannot subsist solely on domestic production. By this measurement, the country hasn’t achieved energy independence.

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* The US produced 97.95 quadrillion British thermal units (Btus) of energy in 2021, exceeding the nation’s consumption for the year (97.33 quadrillion Btus). Thirty-six percent of production was in natural gas, while petroleum was 31%.

* Since 2019, the country has annually produced more energy than it has consumed. Prior to that, the US hadn’t had an energy surplus since 1957.

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Data behind the news
The number of billion-dollar disasters in the US has grown — particularly in the last decade ([link removed]) . Instagram influencer Brian Derrick interviewed USAFacts’s own Sasha Anderson ([link removed]) about this trend.

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One last fact
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Last year, there were 3.9 million nurses in the US. From 2012 to 2021, the number of nurses nationwide ([link removed]) grew by 13.6%, while jobs for the overall workforce grew by 8.1%.

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