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    Majority of Americans Support Tough Action against Illegal Entry and Residence; Favor Lower Legal Immigration and Population Growth

    Two Americans in three (68 percent) agree that the United States should set a goal of completely halting new illegal immigration. Over half (55 percent) support the related goal of reducing the population of 10 to 12 million illegal immigrants now residing in the United States “to near zero.” These were among the key findings of a new poll conducted …

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    Americans Talk About Illegal Immigration – Poll Results (2006)

    Table of Contents Introduction and Method Overview I. General Attitudes Toward Immigration II. Approval of Methods to Deal With Illegal Immigration Sample Demography Poll Questions Introduction and Method Overview This survey was undertaken on behalf of Negative Population Growth to explore several issues surrounding American attitudes toward illegal immigration and to gauge support for various measures to reduce it. Sample …

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    Proposed National Population Policy

    Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version  NPG believes that a national policy to turn U.S. population growth around is critically needed. (See the FORUM series in the Publications on our web site, www.npg.org.) In this paper, we offer a series of specific proposals as to how to accomplish that goal. We recognize the political resistances in the way of …

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    SIX INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

    In the film An Inconvenient Truth, ex vice-president Al Gore presents the facts about climate change. It is a bravura performance. He makes use of brilliant presentational techniques to put before us all relevant current knowledge about climate change. He lightens the factual burden with humour, and by including some interesting

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    Americans Talk About Illegal Immigration – Poll Results (2003)

    Final Report Prepared by RoperASW March 2003 Table of Contents Introduction and Method Overview   I. General Attitudes Toward Immigration   II. Approval of Methods to Deal With Illegal Immigration   III. Views Regarding the Role State and Local Governments Should Play In Thwarting Illegal Immigration   IV. Penalties for False Identification Documents   V. Views Toward Employers and Illegal Immigration Appendices: Demography and Survey …

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    Better Not Bigger (NPG Booknote)

    Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Better Not Bigger by Eben Fodor New Society Publishers, 1999 Reviewed by former NPG Executive Director Sharon McCloe Stein  American attitudes toward growth reflect a great deal of ambivalence.  Many see economic and population growth as good business, more consumers, more workers, more prosperity ÷ a rising tide that lifts all boats.  For …

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    The Population-Environment Connection: Who Makes It?

    Compiled by NPG, this listing details the official population and migration positions of 29 national environmental and population organizations such as the Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, The Wilderness Society and Zero Population Growth. Contact information for each organization is included as well. Download a PDF of the full report here.

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    A Survey Of American Attitudes About Population Size: Towards A Smaller U.S. Population (Executive Summary)

    Executive Summary A Survey Of American Attitudes About Population Size: Towards A Smaller U.S. Population Policy Makers Alert: New Poll Reveals Clear Attitudes Regarding U.S. Population Size and Growth To determine American public opinion with regard to U.S. population size and growth, NPG commissioned a Roper Starch survey. The survey, conducted in December 1995, was carried out with face-to-face interviews …

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