The United Nations a year ago distributed its periodic population projection World Population Prospects. The 1996 Revision.
Continue ReadingThe United Nations is a good place to observe the “zip re-pop” phenomenon.
Continue ReadingThe NRC has released the executive summary of a report on the economic, demographic, and fiscal effects of immigration.
Continue ReadingThe Wall Street Journal on April 1st ran a page one lead story about the promise of the new Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland (“Politics, Money and Nature Had Kept Vast Deposit on Ice,” by Staff Reporter Allana Sullivan).
Continue ReadingChina is not just an example of an industrializing nation.
Continue ReadingThe PCSD has completed its report on sustainability in America, to almost total press and public silence, and so quietly that it took multiple ‘phone calls to the White House to find anybody who knew what it was.
Continue ReadingI think I have found a job for the U.S. Army.
Continue ReadingOn the old road between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, at a crossing called Budaghers, there is an abandoned roadhouse and gas station, bypassed by the new Interstate.
Continue ReadingI participated recently in a round table organized by the Commission on Immigration Reform and was asked to make a brief list of suggestions for its attention. Here is that list.
Continue ReadingClinton on Population, Part 2: Waiting for Al An NPG Forum Paper By Lindsey Grant February 1995 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Tom Lehrer used to sing a song about Vice President Hubert Humphrey: “Whatever became of Hubert? … Are you sad? are you cross? are you gathering moss? … Oh, Hubert what happened to you?” (My …
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