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Philadelphia gains population despite challenges

Philadelphia's population grew for the eighth year in a row in 2014, and surrounding counties were mostly stable, according to new census data, but the picture was not quite as rosy at it may have seemed in the nation's fifth-largest city.

Philadelphia's population rose an estimated 4,245 to 1,560,297 in 2014, the census found, aiding a trend that has helped reverse decades of declines.
Philadelphia's population rose an estimated 4,245 to 1,560,297 in 2014, the census found, aiding a trend that has helped reverse decades of declines.Read more
    by Dylan Purcell and Maria Panaritis, Inquirer Staff Writers
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