Immigrants Drive Growth in U.S. Metro Areas as Wage Gap Widens

The population of suburbs of certain cities is growing as immigrants shift to them. And other cities are losing their population as wages go down. - - Donna Poisl

By John McCormick

May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Population growth in far-flung U.S. suburbs pushed the largest metropolitan areas up 10.5 percent from 2000 through 2008, a study by the Washington-based Brookings Institution found.

Communities along the edge of metropolitan areas grew the most, with their populations surging at a rate more than three times faster than their cities and inner suburbs.

Immigrants and their children continue to fuel much of the metropolitan growth, with almost a quarter of U.S. children having at least one immigrant parent, the “State of Metropolitan America” report said.
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