This book examines the impacts of three major patterns in the future population of the United States. These include: the rate of future population growth and the role of immigration in that growth; 3the changing age structure of the population; the increasing ethnic diversity of the population.

Steve H Murdock

1. The Implications of Future Population Change in America: The Rationale and Scope for an Assessment Part One: The Demographic Context of Change in America 2. Americas Demographic Past: Setting the Framework for the Future 3. America's Future Population: Analyzing Alternative Demographic Futures Part Two: The Implications of Population: Change for America's Future 4. The Labor Force: Implications for America's Competitiveness 5. Population Change, Household Structure, and Income and Poverty in America 6. Demographic Change and Business in America 7. Population Change, Services, Revenues, and Expenditures 8. Summary, Conclusions, and Implications