James Collins, BA BS
Predoctoral Trainee
James is a predoctoral trainee in the Carolina Population Center and Ph.D. student in the Department of City and Regional Planning. His research interests include natural hazards impacts, migration and mobility, and well-being. With Carolina Demography, he investigates natural hazard risk to migrant and seasonal farmworker communities in North Carolina.
Last month, the U.S. Census Bureau released its 2025 county population estimates. The annual estimates show the population as of July 1 of the year and it also tells us how the population has changed from July 1, 2024, to…
January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Human and labor trafficking is an evolving crisis that operates in the shadows of the major interstates and rural farmlands in North Carolina. The US Department of Justice defines human trafficking as a crime…
This blog post expands on a previous blog post that examined housing cost burden across NC by focusing on the disparities between housing cost burden for homeowners and renters. In North Carolina, 66.8% of occupied housing units are owner-occupied, while…
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