Summary
DAYTON -- Population counts for white and black residents living in Dayton declined dramatically during the last decade, with Asian and Hispanic populations growing slightly.
The city lost more than 24,652 residents, a decline of about 14.8, according to new Census data. A majority of the residents who left, about 16,029 people, where white, non-Hispanic individuals. The city's black population dropped by 15.3 percent, for about 10,963 fewer people.See the full content of this document
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Dayton Struggles to Retain Jobs and Homeowners
Keith Lander, board chairman of the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, believes the flight out of Dayton has everything to do with employment opportunities.
"People go where the jobs are," Lander said. "When there were a lot of factory jobs in Dayton, a lot of people left the south to move ...See the full content of this document
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