Access the most recent census population information for Laredo, Texas, including a population profile and history.
Many students live in impoverished, rural, unincorporated subdivisions called "colonias" that are growing around Laredo, Texas, and other border cities. An introduction to the Texas/Mexico border cities discusses immigration, recent population growth, and impacts on living conditions and education. The...
Many students live in impoverished, rural, unincorporated subdivisions called "colonias" that are growing around Laredo, Texas, and other border cities. An introduction to the Texas/Mexico border cities discusses immigration, recent population growth, and impacts on living conditions and education. The...
»»Its growing population has a median age of 28.2—nine years younger than the national average. LAREDO, TEXAS, climbed four spots to finish 22nd. With strong wage growth and the fourth-highest five-year job growth among the large metros, Laredo has also performed better in high-tech ...
“Texasville” from “The Last Picture Show,” of “The Evening Star” from “Terms of Endearment,” and of “Some Can Whistle” from “All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers.” But “Streets of Laredo” is less a sequel than an anti-sequel. Nothing has turned out as anyone hoped...
The Rio Grande is the natural boundary between the United States and Mexico from El Paso, Texas, to Brownsville, Texas. It supports about 12 million people on both sides of the border for municipal, agricultural, industrial, and recreational uses. The rapid population and economic growth along ...
Urban growth and limited prosperity: A history of public housing in Laredo, Texas---1938 to 2006.Public housing in the United States has been a controversial sociopolitical topic since the years of the Great Depression. The issue of appropriate and secure habitation for the country's "deserving...
1993--2008 UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX Gwenn Grondal Magee-PrichardKellyLaredo, Texas residents experienced "long lines, congestion, cries for more infrastructure, and unparalleled growth" resulting from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (Yoskowitz, Giermanski, & Pena-Sanchez, 2002, p. 26...
This paper estimates global logistic regression and logistic geographically weighted regression (GWR) models of urban growth in the adjacent border cities of Laredo, Texas in the United States and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas in Mexico, for two time periods from 1985 to 2014. Historical land use and ...