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 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 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 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 …
Continue ReadingThe riots in Los Angeles have generated a new wave of self-examination in the White establishment.
Continue ReadingIn the last century, the United States has grown from 75 million people to 250 million. Have we gone too far?
Continue ReadingThe President has embarked upon a project to create a hemispheric free trade area, with Canada already aboard and negotiations with Mexico next on the agenda.
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