The President is launching his effort to reform the welfare system in a society that is undergoing tectonic changes driven by population growth, technology, and international trade arrangements.
Continue ReadingThe nation was far more forthright in addressing the issue of population growth a generation ago than it is now.
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Demography and Health Care Reform An NPG Forum Paper by Lindsey Grant October 1993 The President’s proposal for a national Health Security Act must deal with an aging population structure, problems involving immigration, fertility, AIDS and perhaps other plagues, and a changing labor force. Those issues will affect the proposal in ways …
Continue ReadingFor the time being, the United States and much of the industrial world have achieved very high agricultural production and low food costs on the basis of extremely intensive use of fossil energy.
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Alice in Wonderland: U.S. Immigration Policy An NPG Footnote by Lindsey Grant March 2022 Lewis Carroll would be proud. Present U.S. asylum and immigration policies bear the distinctive mark of the Mad Hatter. The Sequence of Events As a starter, we have laws concerning the premissible levels of immigration – not very …
Continue ReadingThe Environmental Protection Agency heretofore has shown no interest in population growth as a cause of environmental problems, and recent remarks by its new administrator suggest that the situation has not improved.
Continue ReadingThe President is facing a mounting crisis over unemployment and wages, which will come to the front as the Senate debates the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Continue ReadingAlthough it has escaped general notice, Vice President Gore, President Nixon, John D. Rockefeller 3rd and the Commission on Population and the American Future, Ambassador George Kennan, and the U.S. Department of State all have something in common.
Continue ReadingBy the time he is inaugurated on Jan. 20, President-elect Bill Clinton may be faced with a record flood of both Haitian and Cuban boat people.
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version What We Can Learn from the Missing Airline Passengers An NPG Forum Paper by Lindsey Grant November 1992 The passenger manifests of airplanes flying into and out of the United States provide disturbing indications that immigration may be running at a substantially higher level than is generally supposed. If it is, the …
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