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Article: "Everything just seems to be falling away.": ; KANAWHA VALLEY RESIDENT JAY BURFORD; Valley on the MOVE; FIRST IN A SERIES; Kanawha county exodus; More and more residents opting to leave area
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- January 28, 2001
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Kanawha County lost twice as many taxpayers and their dependents
in 1999 than in 1994. Why is the population loss accelerating, where
are people going and what can be done to turn it around?
sfinn@wvgazette.com
Imagine all the people in Charleston packing their belongings and
leaving Kanawha County, never to return. How many schools would have
to close? How many services would be cut for the people left behind?
Kanawha County has lost more than 53,000 people since 1960,
according to U.S. Census figures. That's about the number of
Charleston residents today.
The county's bleeding of people slowed in the early 1990s, but
the flow has grown into a hemorrhage in the last five years,
according to ...