If Allen County keeps on keeping on, its on a trajectory to lose almost one-third of its population over the next 50 years, according to a report released by the Kansas Health Institute.
Instead of raising their families here, more and more of todays youth are joining their peers in the city. Even those in their senior years are seeking greener pastures elsewhere.
Barbara Anderson, a regional director for the Department of Commerce, takes the reports gloomy prognosis as a personal challenge.