The Southern Tier has suffered through a decade of population losses that rank among the worst in New York, a state pock-marked by struggling cities and fading countryside, numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show...
"What this is, is proof of what everyone upstate has known for a decade," said Phil Klinkner, the director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College. "Economic opportunities have dried up and there's not much reason for people to come here or to stay here."
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