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42. A Profile of The Foreign-Born in Lowell, Massachusetts
- Author:
- Katherine Lotspeich, Michael Fix, Dan Perez-Lopez, and Jason Ost
- Publication Date:
- 10-2003
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- The Building the New American Community demonstration project is an experiment in refugee and immigrant integration in which the cities of Lowell, Massachusetts; Nashville, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon formed coalitions to identify integration challenges in their com m unities and address them collaboratively. These cities were assisted by a national team of policy analysts, advocates, and researchers from the Nation al Conference of State Legislatures, the National Immigration Forum, the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, The Urban Institute, and the Migration Policy Institute.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Human Welfare, and Migration
- Political Geography:
- United States
43. A Profile of the Foreign-Born in the Portland, Oregon Tri-County Area
- Author:
- Katherine Lotspeich, Michael Fix, Dan Perez-Lopez, and Jason Ost
- Publication Date:
- 10-2003
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- The Building the New American Community demonstration project is an experiment in refugee and immigrant integration in which the cities of Lowell, Massachusetts; Nashville, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon, formed coalitions to identify integration challenges in their communities and address them collaboratively. These cities were assisted by a national team of policy analysts, advocates, and researchers from the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Immigration Forum, the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, The Urban Institute, and the Migration Policy Institute.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Economics, and Migration
- Political Geography:
- United States
44. Budget Crisis at the Door
- Author:
- C. Eugene Steuerle and Rudolph G. Penner
- Publication Date:
- 10-2003
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- In 1995 the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform concluded that “If we do not plan for the future, entitlement spending promises will exceed financial resources in the next century. The current spending trend is unsustainable … If we fail to act, we have made a choice that threatens the economic future of our children and our nation” (U.S. Congress 1995). Now, well into the next century, we have still failed to act. Yet the problem not only remains, but in many ways has intensified simply because we are years closer to the day of reckoning. Relative to both available revenues and societal needs, we have promised more than we can afford to an elderly and fairly well-off near-elderly population that will soon grow very rapidly as the baby boomers retire and life expectancy continues to increase.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Economics, and Government
- Political Geography:
- United States
45. Trends in Naturalization
- Author:
- Michael E. Fix, Jeffrey S. Passel, and Kenneth Sucher
- Publication Date:
- 09-2003
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- The Policy Imperative Naturalization is the gateway to citizenship for immigrants and to full membership and political participation in U.S. society. The importance of naturalization—and citizenship—has risen since the mid-1990s, when welfare and illegal immigration reform based access to public benefits and selected rights increasingly on citizenship.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Government, and Migration
- Political Geography:
- United States
46. The New Neighbors: A User's Guide to Data on Immigrants in U.S. Communities
- Author:
- Randy Capps, Michael E. Fix, Dan Perez-Lopez, and Jeffrey S. Passel
- Publication Date:
- 08-2003
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- Immigrant integration is now a key issue for communities across the nation. States and communities that had seen few immigrants as recently as 1990 are now welcoming new arrivals in unprecedented numbers. Although new immigrants continue to settle in the traditional U.S. centers of immigration—including California, Florida, New York, and Texas—the states with the currently fastest growing immigrant populations have not seen similar inflows for almost a century, if ever. According to the 2000 Census, these new destination states include North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee (at the top of the list) and other states in the Southeast, as well as states across the Midwest and up into the Pacific Northwest.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Government, and Migration
- Political Geography:
- United States, New York, California, Georgia, Texas, and Florida
47. Budget Blues: The Fiscal Outlook and Options for Reform
- Author:
- William G. Gale, Alan J. Auerbach, Peter Orszag, and Samuel R. Potter
- Publication Date:
- 05-2003
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- Establishing a sustainable fiscal policy is central to the nation's long-term economic prospects, but requires a clear understanding of how past and current policies affect future resources. The federal budget should, but does not, provide this information, both because the task is difficult and current accounting practices are deficient. This paper shows that adjusting the official budget for many accounting and economic issues implies a bleak fiscal outlook that presents policymakers with difficult choices. We also explore options to restore fiscal sustainability directly and to improve the budget process that governs fiscal decisions.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Economics, and Government
- Political Geography:
- United States
48. The Dispersal of Immigrants in the 1990s
- Author:
- Randy Capps, Michael Fix, and Jeffrey Passel
- Publication Date:
- 11-2002
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- The U.S. immigrant population grew rapidly during the 1990s, with growth rates especially high across a wide band of states in the Southeast, Midwest, and Rocky Mountain regions. In many of these states, the foreign-born population more than doubled between 1990 and 2000.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Human Welfare, and Migration
- Political Geography:
- United States
49. Growing Global Migration and Its Implications for the United States
- Publication Date:
- 03-2001
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Abstract:
- During the next 15 years, globalization, demographic imbalances between OECD and developing countries, and interstate and civil conflicts will fuel increasing international migration, much of it illegal. Migration will have positive and negative consequences for sending and receiving countries alike. Other countries' responses to migration issues will affect migration pressures on the United States and a broad range of US economic and security interests.
- Topic:
- Security, Demographics, and Migration
- Political Geography:
- United States
50. The Defense Monitor: Population Growth and Water Resources in the Middle East
- Author:
- Rachel Stohl, Christopher Hellman, Tomas Valasek, Leigh Josey, and Nicholas Berry
- Publication Date:
- 09-2001
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center for Defense Information
- Abstract:
- Political strife is nothing new in the Middle East. In fact, many of the present-day disputes date back 100 years or more. But the increasing scarcity of renewable water resources and the simultaneous high population growth add new urgency to the necessity to devise a settlement.
- Topic:
- International Relations, Agriculture, Demographics, and Environment
- Political Geography:
- United States and Middle East