Subtitle: Baseline for the New Millennium
Editors: James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca
Subject: Public Policy
Paperback ISBN 0-8135-2646-9
Pages: 220 pp., 9 tables, 14 figures
Description: An examination of the consequences of rapid demographic change for U.S. public policy.

"Growing from a year-long public policy forum held at Rutgers University that involved 12 prominent demographers, this readable volume is divided into six parts. These sections treat baselines of demograhic change; global demographics; immigration and migration; economic issues; the American family dilemma; and America in transition."-Choice

Beneath the surface of public-policy concerns that seem temporary are powerful evolutionary forces with long-term effects. One of the most important of these is the profound demographic change taking place in America-change which has extraordinary social and economic consequences, and far-reaching public-policy implications for the future of the nation.

James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca have assembled experts on demography, immigration, policy, and family life to explain and document both changes and prospects for changes. Contributors profile the contours of demographic change in America and identify select public-policy challenges arising from this change. They cover a wide range of demographic shifts-"baby booms" and "baby busts," rising immigration, increasing ethnic and racial diversity, the proliferation of different household configurations, economic upward mobility that stems from the information-age rather than the industrial economy, and suburban and sunbelt gains.

Contributors are Edward Blakely, Jane S. De Lung, Thomas J. Espenshade, William H. Frey, James W. Hughes, Richard C. Leone, Frank Levy, Peter A. Morrison, Dowell Myers, David Popenoe, Martha Farnsworth Riche, Joseph J. Seneca, Daphne Spain, Judith Waldrop, and Charles F. Westoff.

James W. Hughes is dean of the Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

Joseph J. Seneca is the Rutgers University Vice President for Academic Affairs.