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Title America's demographic tapestry : baseline for the new millennium / edited by James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1999.

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Description vii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Demographic trajectory and public policy / James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca -- pt. 1. The baselines of demographic change and the broad policy framework. America's changing demographic tapestry / Martha Farnsworth Riche and Judith Waldrop ; Family politics and demographic realities / Peter A. Morrison -- pt. 2. Global demographics : ramifications. Global population outlook / Charles F. Westoff ; Population growth : the complicating element / Jane S. De Lung -- pt. 3. People on the move : immigration and migration. Challenge of illegal immigration / Thomas J. Espenshade ; Immigration and demographic Balkanization : toward one America or two? / William H. Frey -- pt. 4. Demographics, income, and economic mobility. How big is the income dilemma? / Frank Levy ; Upward mobility in space and time : lessons from immigration / Dowell Myers -- pt. 5. The great American family dilemma. Balancing act : if you've got the money, honey, I've got the time / Daphne Spain ; American family decline : public policy considerations / David Popenoe -- pt. 6. America in transition. Separate and not equal : America's diversity crisis / Edward Blakely ; Baby boom retirement crisis : myth or reality? / Richard C. Leone.
Subject Population forecasting.
United States -- Population.
United States -- Population policy.
Added Author Hughes, James W.
Seneca, Joseph J., 1943-
ISBN 0813526477 (pbk.)
0813526469

 
    
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