While Increasing Fuel Efficiency is a Positive Step, America is Still Missing the Real Solution

Just a few days after his State of the Union address, President Obama followed through on his promise to work against climate change.  According to USA Today, he “ordered the Environmental Protection Agency EPA and the Transportation Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA to develop and issue new fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 31, 2016.”  Environmentalists hailed …

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The Awesome Power of Exponential Growth

Exponential growth is the steady growth of anything by a fixed percentage over a period of time.  Compound interest on a savings account is a good example of exponential growth.  The late Professor Albert A. Bartlett said “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”  We fully agree. I often wonder if the …

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NPG Commentary Published in Spring Issue of Social Contract Journal

The Spring 2014 issue of Social Contract Journal is out!  This issue’s theme is:  What Should America’s Immigration Policy Be?  NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada contributed the piece “U.S. Immigration Policy – An Ever-Growing Challenge,” which highlights the real facts about U.S. immigration.  NPG Special Advisor David Simcox collaborated with Tracy to submit a revised version of his classic NPG …

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NPG Re-Issues its Call for an 80 Percent Cut in Legal Immigration

Alexandria, VA (May 11, 2014) – Observing that mass immigration has by default become the nation’s de facto population policy, Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Don Mann has released an updated position paper.  The paper, Toward Negative Population Growth, restates NPG’s call for an eighty percent reduction of annual legal immigration into the U.S. NPG’s proposal would reduce the current …

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Toward Negative Population Growth: Cutting Legal Immigration by Four-Fifths (An NPG Position Paper)

Mass immigration, whether through established or extra-legal channels, has by default become the nation’s de facto population policy. In 2005, new immigrants (legal and illegal) plus births to immigrants accounted for about 2.3 million people – more than 60 percent of America’s

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