The illegal immigration problem is going away.That's the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States.Pew's demographers have carefully combed through statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Homeland Security and the...

Marking the birth of the 7 billionth person on earth, here are five myths challenging everything you think you know about the world's population.

This second conference about "Red, Blue, and Purple America" brings back the panelists who convened in February 2008 to discuss America's changing demographic trends and electoral landscape.

The coming century stands to witness an extraordinary worldwide aging of the human population, and the emergence of aged societies will present citizens and policymakers around the world with challenges unknown to their predecessors. Will working populations support ever larger numbers of long-lived retirees? How will aging pressures affect national...

A close look at a major voting group--aging baby boomers--shows that this growing demographic is becoming more conservative.

The evolution of American politics and policy has been intimately bound up with demographic and geographic change. The arrival of the GI generation, the advance of suburbanization, the rise of the baby boomers, and women’s entry into the workforce all had profound effects on our society. Today, new demographic and...

The very conception of "population problems" is inherently ambiguous and arbitrary, lending itself to faulty analysis and inappropriate diagnoses.

This volume offers essays and commentaries by leading economists and demographers from both sides of the border.