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Immigrants and Boomers Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America / Dowell Myers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Dowell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Age distribution (Demography)--Economic aspects--United States.
- Age distribution (Demography).
- Demographic transition--Economic aspects--United States.
- Demographic transition.
- Immigrants--Government policy--United States.
- Immigrants.
- United States--Population--Economic aspects.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This story of hope for both immigrants and native-born Americans is a well-researched, insightful, and illuminating study that provides compelling evidence to support a policy of homegrown human investment as a new priority.A timely, valuable addition to demographic and immigration studies.
- Contents:
- Knowing and making the future
- Demographic transition in California and the United States
- A dismal future? : the outlook in the early transition period
- California turnaround : a renewed basis for optimism
- Immigrant upward mobility : support for a more hopeful future
- The political lag during the demographic transition
- An evolving social contract with many strands
- Rediscovering the intergenerational social contract for the twenty-first century
- Growing the new skilled workforce and middle-class taxpayer base
- Sharing the American dream : the linked interests of older home sellers and younger home buyers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-342) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-418-3
- OCLC:
- 608375691
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