Ending Illegal Immigration: Make It Unprofitable
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Illegal immigration, increasingly profitable for powerful interests, has added as many as 12.5 million to the U.S. population since 1960. Ending the flow will demand a national consensus to fully fund enforcement, insulate it from pressures, and mandate electronic verification of work eligibility. The public social costs of illegal settlement must be …
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A TALE OF TWO FUTURES: CHANGING SHARES OF U.S. POPULATION GROWTH (NPG Booknote)
The second half of the Twentieth Century was a period of unprecedented and remarkable population growth in the United States.
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THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON UNITED STATES’ POPULATION SIZE: 1950 TO 2050
Much has been written about the growing level of immigration into the United States over the past two decades.
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SOCIAL SECURITY: THE PONZI PATH TO DYSTOPIA
Population growth only postpones the day of reckoning. According to the Census Bureau’s 1992 most likely “medium”‘ projection, there is the troubling prospect of nearly 400 million Americans by mid-century.
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MALTHUS: MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER
In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus tried to inform “people that a human population, like a population of any other species, had the potential to increase exponentially were it not limited by finite support from its resource base.
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A Bicentennial Malthusian Essay: Conservation, Population and the Indifference to Limits (NPG Booknote)
In 1798, an English clergyman published an essay about human population growth that served to define the terms of debate on this issue for the next two hundred years.
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OUR DEMOGRAPHIC FUTURE: WHY POPULATION POLICY MATTERS TO AMERICA
Although the United States is generally thought of as a leader in social policy, when it comes to demographic policy the U.S. is well behind much of the rest of the world.
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Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis (NPG Special Report)
Around 1969, college and university students developed a major interest in the environment and, stimulated by this, I began to realize that neither I nor the students had a good understanding of the implications of steady growth, and in particular, of the enormous numbers that could be produced by steady growth in modest periods of time.
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NIXON AND AMERICAN POPULATION POLICY: ANNIVERSARY OF A MISSED OPPORTUNITY (NPG Footnote)
The post-mortems marking the 25th anniversary of Watergate earlier in 1997 overshadowed another quarter-century milestone of the Richard Nixon era – one of even greater long-term consequences for the nation’s future.
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OVERPOPULATION AND OVERCONSUMPTION: WHERE SHOULD WE FOCUS?
There are many pieces to our environmental puzzle, which when assembled can ensure that our planet and everything on it has a joyful ride now and into the indefinite future.
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