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US marks slowest population growth since the Depression

by Nicholas RiccardiMike Schneider
| April 26, 2021 9:27 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. population growth has slowed to the lowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said, as Americans continued their march to the South and West and one-time engines of growth, New York and California, lost political influence.

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