Emphasizing the increasing significance of immigration as a determinant of U.S. population growth, and stressing the need for developing population policy upon which future immigration policy might be based, this report presents projections of U.S. population to determine the impact of immigration in the next 100 years. The projections, given for…

Several times early in the twentieth century total annual immigration exceeded one million people. Current immigration figures may match those record totals. Since 1979, legal immigrants have averaged 566,000 a year; newly arrived refugees and asylees approved have averaged 135,000; and the "settled" illegal immigrant population may be…

The U.S. baby-boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964, is the largest generation in the nations's history. Numbering over 80 million people in 1990, this giant generation has indelibly changed U.S. society, requiring adjustments in schools, labor markets, housing markets, and government programs. Perhaps more than any other institution,…