argues against American decline
says immigration from Asia and Latin America will be a force for dynamism, innovation, and prosperity
challenge will be promoting social mobility and economic prosperity for aspirational Americans
Despite the national decline in child poverty and low-income
rates in the United States since the early 1990s, the rates in
California have surpassed those of the nation.
a large and growing majority of poor
children live in working families, and as many of
California’s poor children live in two-parent as in
single-parent families.
Almost half of
all California’s children are immigrants, and the large
majority of these immigrants are Hispanic.
Poverty rates for Hispanic children increased from 30 to 34
percent, an increase of 14 percent. Poverty rates for
African-American children went from 32 to 24 percent. At the same
time, the poverty rates for white children stayed nearly flat at
about 11 percent.
The poverty rate for Asian-American children was
19 percent during 1996–2000.
Children in two-parent families in California are more likely
to be poor than they were two decades ago, but they continue to
have much lower poverty rates than children living with single
mothers.
It was bound to happen: Data Cuisine isall about cooking up infographics that you can literally eat: a pizza that conveys the patterns of 100 years of Italian immigration, for example, or a salmon mousse that explores the environmental impacts of commercial fishing over the past decade.
The implications of permanently slumped population growth are wide-ranging. Shrinking populations produce stagnant economies. Stagnant economies create wonky cultural knock-on effects, like a zero-sum mentality that ironically makes it harder to pursue pro-growth policies.