By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

Our population continues to grow, so we have had to add positions to handle that growth,

Our population growth is still showing 2 percent, so our demand is going to be better than most places. There are no labor problems, such as mills closing, so our economic base is stable.

I think we have all known that we were having growth in the Hispanic population. We have known it through the school population. I didn't realize it was that high.