Alice in Wonderland: U.S. Immigration Policy
Click 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 …
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EPA’s Population Non-Policy (NPG Footnote)
The 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.
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A BELEAGUERED PRESIDENT, A FIZZLED “ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE”, AND A NAFTA TIME BOMB
The 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).
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A Congenial Job for the Vice President (NPG Footnote)Â
Although 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.
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CARIBBEAN BOAT PEOPLE: CLINTON’S FIRST CRISIS? (NPG Footnote)
By 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.
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What We Can Learn from the Missing Airline Passengers
Click 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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HURRICANE ANDREW: THE POPULATION FACTOR
The scale of destruction caused by Hurricane Andrew in south Florida is shocking.
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Why We Need a Smaller U.S. Population and How We Can Achieve It (An NPG Position Paper)
We need a smaller U.S. population in order to halt the destruction of our environment and to make possible the creation of an economy that will be sustainable indefinitely.
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The Biologist and the Economist: Is Dialogue Possible?
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Life Expectancy Drives U.S. and World Population Growth An NPG Forum Paper by Nathan Keyfitz June 1992 When population issues arise in government or the press, economists’ advice is regularly sought, even though modern post-Keynesian economics offers very little methodological help in dealing with secular change or limits. Biology is perhaps the …
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IMMIGRATION AND JOBS: THE PROCESS OF DISPLACEMENT
In this paper, I attempt to measure the displacement of American labor by illegal aliens.
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