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Why Care About Projected U.S. Ethnicity and Age?

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Bob guest blogs on Huffington Post to discuss population and if we should care about the diversity of the future population.

“Someone remind me: Why should I care what the ethnic makeup of the United States might be in 2050? Or the median age?

The U.S. Census Bureau finds it newsworthy that its just-released projections of U.S. populations show that Americans will be “more racially diverse and much older by mid-century.” You have to read five paragraphs into the Bureau’s press release to find out that in 42 years there will be 439 million of us, up more than 45 percent from…

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