Abortion bans seem to be driving young people to move out of state
Research has shown that people with higher education levels are more likely to support abortion rights and have the resources to move. If these trends persist, states could become increasingly unequal, the researchers wrote, with more educated and affluent people clustering in states with abortion protections, and those with less education and lower incomes staying in places with bans.
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People are fleeing abortion bans states: report
A new analysis has found tens of thousands of people, likely young folks, who live in states with strict abortion bans, are fleeing. The working paper, which is not yet peer-reviewed, was published by the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research. It found that since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade via the Dobbs decision in June 2022, states with near-total abortion bans have lost more than 36,000 people per quarter. People who lived in single-person households were more likely to move out of the abortion-ban states. The researchers looked at change-of-address data from the U.S. Postal Service.
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