VIDEO
William H. Frey, December 20, 2011
The 2010 Census reveals that America is a nation on the precipice of immense change, says William Frey. The data tell us that our aging population will give way to the most diverse generation of Americans to date.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, Alan Berube, Audrey Singer and Jill Wilson, December 20, 2011, TIME.com
Data from the Census Bureau released in 2011 show the huge demographic changes taking shape across the United States. In this slideshow, experts from the Metropolitan Policy Program look back at analyses from the past year, highlighting decreases in domestic mobility and economic opportunity, along with significant growth in both the aging and ethnic minority populations. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ömer Taşpınar, September 15, 2011, The National Interest
Western media focus on Turkey has lately been on civil-military tensions and Ankara’s diplomatic pressure on Syria. However, Ömer Taşpınar argues that the country’s most urgent problem remains the same one since the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923: the Kurdish question. Taşpınar writes that addressing Kurdish discontent with a new and more democratic constitution has become a major roadblock for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, our nation continues to struggle with what it means to be American and attitudes toward Islam, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment, issues of national security, and the role of religion and religious leaders in U.S. politics. On September 6, the religion, policy and politics project at Brookings co-hosted an event with the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) to release a new PRRI survey and accompanying report on these issues. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, August 31, 2011, The Brookings Institution
The 2010 Census shows that the first decade of the 21st century was pivotal for racial and ethnic change in the United States. William H. Frey finds that the rapid growth of Hispanic and Asian origin groups and internal shifts of African Americans are transforming the racial and ethnic demographic profiles of America’s largest metropolitan areas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, August 26, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Using newly released Census data, William H. Frey finds that roughly half of U.S. infants under age one are from ethnic minority groups. Frey notes areas with sharp increases in minority populations, and discusses the growing generation gap between the aging, largely white population and the more diverse youth population.
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Ron Haskins, August 19, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Ron Haskins looks at the plight of Roma people and questions why this large minority population has not made great progress within Bulgaria since the fall of the Communist government or Bulgaria's entry into the EU. Haskins recommends development in areas like education and leadership training as he argues that progress depends on the actions of enlightened individuals and groups in their own spheres of influence. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jill H. Wilson, Audrey Singer and Roberto Suro, August 04, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Both poverty and immigration have increased over the past decade, and both are growing faster in suburbs than in cities in the largest metropolitan areas, according to a new paper by Roberto Suro, Jill Wilson and Audrey Singer. With immigrants now representing one in every five suburban residents living in poverty and the U.S.-born poor population accounting for 83 percent of recent growth in suburban poverty, the authors examine the complex and unfamiliar public policy challenges facing suburbs that have little or no experience dealing with either immigration or poverty. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Matthew Hall, Audrey Singer, Gordon F. De Jong and Deborah Roempke Graefe, June 09, 2011, The Brookings Institution
In the ongoing, highly-charged debate over U.S. immigration, a key policy consideration is the economic impact of immigrants and role they play in the U.S. workforce at various skill levels. A new paper analyzes educational attainment among foreign-born adults in each of the nation’s 100 largest metros and identifies some policy implications that reflect the overlap of immigration and economics. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, May 04, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Due to a reduction of white flight, increased black suburbanization, and a greater Hispanic presence in cities and suburbs, metropolitan populations are becoming increasingly multi-hued. As described in William Frey’s analysis of Census 2010, this dissolution of stereotypes holds important implications for social service providers, which now need to serve people with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and politicians, who can no longer rely upon demographically homogenous voting blocs. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer, April 13, 2011, The Avenue, The New Republic
Even though Arizona and Utah have taken contrasting approaches to immigration policy, both states' policies may usurp federal authority and be found unconstitutional. Audrey Singer looks at the most controversial provisions of Arizona’s law and also Utah’s recent package of laws, which include new pathways into the state. She notes that both states’ attempts to tackle immigration send a message to Congress about the urgency of reform. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, April 08, 2011, The Avenue, The New Republic
According to Census 2010 data, the child population in many states and metropolitan areas has declined. William Frey analyzes this trend and what it could mean for communities and education systems throughout the United States. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, April 06, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Following the first decade of the 21st century, it’s clear that America’s population will continue to become more globalized and ethnically diverse, writes William H. Frey. In his latest analysis he finds that as the white population ages, the increase in new minorities, Hispanics in particular, has altered the country's demographic picture and infused the child population with growth and vitality. Read More
VIDEO
William H. Frey, March 25, 2011
New census data shows a wave of African-Americans leaving the cities for the suburbs, an aging of the white population and a surge in multiracial families.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, March 25, 2011, The Brookings Institution
New data from the 2010 Census portray a sharp change in the country’s demographic picture from last century, writes William Frey. Significant growth among Hispanics and Asians, an altered geography for African Americans, and an aging white population all signal major political, economic and social shifts ahead for the United States in the 21st century. Read More