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There were 33 cities with 500,000 or more people in 2010, nearly double the number (18) in 1950. Find out more on Friday, June 15, at approximately 8:30 a.m. EDT as Marc Perry, chief of the Population Distribution Branch at the U.S. Census Bureau, discusses contemporary population trends for the nation's largest cities. Each Friday, C-SPAN's "America By the Numbers" segment features information from the federal statistical system. The program highlights the trends and allows the public to call in or email their views. More information on previous C-SPAN programs is available at <https://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan.html>.
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