<div dir="ltr">Beth, the American Community Survey is conducted by Census to provide a good, national and local statistical sample consisting of many very detailed questions. A relatively few people would have participated in this survey in any one year. These folks just pulled the ACS data (available at <a href="http://census.gov">census.gov</a>) and did a very quick, back of the envelope kind of analysis.<div><br><div>I see very little in the article that would fall directly under the purview of town authorities. Obviously increasing employment opportunities in the town would do much to alleviate a lot of the challenges listed there, certainly that is true. More (good) jobs would shorten commutes, lower the relative cost of rent (all else being equal), and make health insurance more affordable and more accessible to people. National, regional, state, county and perhaps local policies and action are involved in these factors.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Beth Judy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bethjudy4@gmail.com" target="_blank">bethjudy4@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">How did they collect the data? I don't remember receiving a survey.<div>Did anyone else on TownTalk receive a survey?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;word-wrap:break-word;font-size:18px;color:rgb(109,109,109)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;word-wrap:break-word;font-size:18px;color:rgb(109,109,109)">------------------------------------</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;word-wrap:break-word;font-size:18px;color:rgb(109,109,109)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;word-wrap:break-word;font-size:18px;color:rgb(109,109,109)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;word-wrap:break-word;font-size:18px;color:rgb(109,109,109)">We analyzed over 41 places in Maryland to identify the ones that are going grey at a young age.</p></div><div style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(109,109,109);margin-bottom:50px;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><img src="https://www.zippia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/317cfe6.jpg" width="48" height="48" alt="Chris Kolmar" style="border:0px;vertical-align:middle;max-width:100%;min-height:auto;border-radius:25px;margin-right:10px"><span>by <span style="margin-right:0px">Chris Kolmar</span></span><span><span style="margin-left:20px"><a href="https://www.zippia.com/advice/category/rankings/" rel="category tag" style="color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration:none;outline:none!important;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">Rankings</a></span> - 1 month ago</span></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.zippia.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(36,87,167);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.5px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank">Zippia</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.5px"> analyzed </span><a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2016/05/25/see-if-your-town-is-one-of-the-10-most-stressed-places-in-maryland/#" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none transparent;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(36,87,167);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.5px;display:inline;background:none transparent" target="_blank"><span style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:auto;line-height:normal;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;float:none!important;display:inline!important;white-space:nowrap!important;background:transparent"><span style="border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:transparent transparent rgb(0,204,0);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;float:none;min-height:auto;display:inline;white-space:normal;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(0,153,0);margin:0px!important;padding:0px 0px 1px!important;text-decoration:underline!important;background:transparent">data</span><img src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="outline:0px;white-space:normal;max-height:none;margin:0px!important;padding:0px 0px 0px 4px!important;border:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;display:inline!important;float:none!important;max-width:none!important;width:auto!important;min-height:auto!important;background:transparent"></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.5px"> from the U.S. Census’ American Community Survey for 2010 to 2014 to </span><a href="https://www.zippia.com/advice/stressed-places-in-maryland/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(36,87,167);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.5px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank">rank</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.5px"> the 41 most stressed places in Maryland, using criteria such as the unemployment rate, average hours worked and percentage of income going to rent.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.5px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25.5px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Ebbeler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com" target="_blank">jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">WOW!!!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Definitely a list the town should not want to be #1 on. Looks like the town leadership has a lot of work ahead of them:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2016/05/25/see-if-your-town-is-one-of-the-10-most-stressed-places-in-maryland/" target="_blank">http://washington.cbslocal.com/2016/05/25/see-if-your-town-is-one-of-the-10-most-stressed-places-in-maryland/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">It’s no surprise that Maryland is</span><span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2016/05/25/see-if-your-town-is-one-of-the-10-most-stressed-places-in-maryland/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#009900;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">home</span></span><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#2457a7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="10" height="10" style="width:.1041in;min-height:.1041in" src="cid:image001.png@01D1B80E.4BD331C0" alt="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png"></span></a></span><span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">to
plenty of stressed out people when you consider the high cost of living in many areas, long commutes from D.C. and more. But what residents most need a vacation?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.zippia.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2457a7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Zippia</span></a> analyzed data from the U.S. Census’ American</span><span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2016/05/25/see-if-your-town-is-one-of-the-10-most-stressed-places-in-maryland/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#009900;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Community</span></span><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#2457a7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="10" height="10" style="width:.1041in;min-height:.1041in" src="cid:image001.png@01D1B80E.4BD331C0" alt="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png"></span></a>Survey
for 2010 to 2014 to <a href="https://www.zippia.com/advice/stressed-places-in-maryland/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2457a7;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">rank</span></a> the 41 most stressed places in Maryland, using criteria such as the unemployment rate,
average hours worked and percentage of income going to rent.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Riverdale Park tops the list with 69.3 percent of residents suffering a long commute and 55.3 percent paying high rent. See the top 10 below:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Riverdale Park<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Mount Rainier<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">New Carrollton<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">District Heights<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Bladensburg<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Cheverly<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Baltimore<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><span>8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Takoma Park<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><span>9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Hyattsville<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">College Park<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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