HuGeo 8.2 St. Paul demographics

HuGeo 8.2 Saint Paul Demographics

not births, not deaths, but IMMIGRATION!!!

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What are the three parts to understand population numbers?

• how many babies are born in a place

• how many people die in a place

• how many people move in and out of a place

• don't choose this one

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Minnesota in 1860: choose all that apply

• 50% of the population was under the age of 20

• 1/3 of Minnesotans were born in other countries

• There were way too many old people in Minnesota

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People who move from other countries to Saint Paul ... click all that apply.

• bring energy to the community.

• live on welfare and never contribute anything.

• start a lot small businesses.

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People from other countries have helped keep Saint Paul's population from shrinking. Click all that apply.

• Yes, Saint Paul's population would have been a lot smaller without people from other countries moving here.

• It is really good when a city loses population. Who needs people anyway?

• Immigrants bring workers to companies, small businesses to neighborhoods, and they pay taxes.

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Immigrants help the places where they live by ... click all that apply.

• buying stuff.

• paying taxes.

• working in businesses.

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in 2015, immigrants families ...

• earned more than 941 million dollars.

• earned millions but didn't pay any taxes.

• paid more than 130 billion to the federal government in Washington, D.C.

• paid more than 90 million dollars to the State of Minnesota and more to MN counties and cities

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In Minnesota in 2015,

• immigrants had more than 718 million dollars to spend in MINNESOTA.

• immigrants contribute to the Minnesota economy by earning money, paying taxes, and then buying stuff.

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An entrepreneur is a person ...

• who builds a small business.

• who builds a small business that sometimes grows huge.

• has an idea of how to many money in business and gets it done.

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Minnesota has immigrant entrepreneurs. Click all that apply.

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In St. Paul, there are more than 1,500 businesses that ...

• were started by immigrants.

• are owned by immigrants.

• employ a ton of people.

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Immigrants are younger than other Minnesotans on average. That means ...

• they have jobs!

• they are working age, which means they pay taxes and have money to buy stuff.

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See that green line?

• That's me and my many brothers and many sisters in the baby boom generation getting older and older.

• The green line is old people. When there are more old people, the population will go down. Old people do NOT have babies.

• If we didn't have immigrants moving to Saint Paul, our economy would suffer.

• We need the younger people moving in and having children to make our city healthy.

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The huge change in the past 160 years is ...

• age! Minnesotans are much older now.

• Minnesota has always needed immigrants to keep a decent population.

• The graph shows more and more older people for the next 20 years!

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Minnesota total fertility rate: how many babies MN women are having. Click all you can see in the graph.

• Minnesota had fewer children in 2017 than 2008. This would cause a decrease in population.

• In order to be a strong state with a healthy economy, Minnesota is going to need people to move in.

• Minnesota= more old people. Minnesota= fewer children. Who is going to do the work? Immigrants!

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This is called a ...

• population box.

• population pyramid.

• population cylinder.

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This population pyramid is your FUTURE. It's what we will look at on FRIDAY! Population pyramids show ... click what makes sense.

• age

• sex: men on the left and women on the right of the pyramid.

• older people are toward the top of the pyramid

• younger people are toward the bottom of the pyramid.