Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population

Provides an estimate of the size, national origins, and demographic composition of the unauthorized migrant population living in the U.S. Includes the growth of undocumented migrants in states that previously had relatively small foreign-born populations

Assessing farm sustainability with value oriented methods

Agricultural policy makers aim to combine strong economic performance with a sustainable use of natural resources. An important step is to move from trying to define sustainability towards developing concrete tools for measuring and promoting achievements in sustainability. Hence, sustainability assessment is inevitably based on strong simplifications both of the theoretical paradigm and of the characteristics of systems of concern. The most known approaches to assess sustainability performance are burden orientated: they assess the costs or potential harm of resource use. These burden-oriented approaches focus on the level of environmental impacts caused by an economic activity compared to another set of environmental impacts, while value-oriented impact assessment analyses how much value has been created with this set of environmental impacts as compared with the use of these resources by other companies. In this paper, an outline of the possibilities and limitations of value-oriented methods to assess farm sustainability will be discussed.sustainability assessment, agriculture, value oriented, Farm Management,

The Rise of the Second Generation: Changing Patterns in Hispanic Population Growth

Provides a detailed look at demographic trends, based on projections of Hispanic population growth from 2000 to 2050

U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade

Estimates changes in the 2007-09 inflow of unauthorized immigrants compared with 2000-07 by state, country of origin, gender, and age; their share in the labor force, and impact on the overall unauthorized population. Considers contributing factors

Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow

Analyzes trends in the populations and annual inflows of undocumented and legal immigrants in the United States between 2000 and 2008. Presents findings on the composition of the foreign-born population in terms of arrival year and country of birth

Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave?

Based on U.S. and Mexican government data, analyzes 2001-09 trends in the flow of Mexican immigrants into the United States and that of Mexican-born migrants returning from the U.S. Examines claims that migrants are leaving due to the 2008-09 recession

U.S. Population Projections: 2005-2050

Projects population growth, new immigrants and their descendants as a percentage of that growth, and changes in the population's ethnic/racial composition. Analyzes the "dependency ratio" of children and elderly to working-age Americans

Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010

Analyzes trends in the estimated number of unauthorized immigrants overall, in the workforce, and of newborns with at least one unauthorized-immigrant parent. Examines unauthorized populations by state, share of state population, and settlement patterns

Unauthorized Immigrants and Their U.S.-Born Children

Analyzes data on the number, age distribution, fertility, and family structure of legal and unauthorized immigrants and the percentage of their children among all U.S. children and of the U.S.-born and foreign-born among their children

A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States

Presents a demographic snapshot of the unauthorized immigrant population, including growth rates, regions of origin and settlement, family structure, portions of schoolchildren and the labor force, education, income level, and health insurance status