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NPG Launches Area-Wide Educational Project to Help Save the Chesapeake Bay

Alexandria, VA (1/23/09): Negative Population Growth, the nation’s premier population-focused organization, has launched a new “Chesapeake Bay Project” dedicated to focusing students’ attention on the Chesapeake Bay’s deteriorating environment. The new program is designed to serve as both an educational project and a “call to action” for students to get involved in pressuring federal, state and local leaders to produce …

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Majority of Americans Support Tough Action against Illegal Entry and Residence; Favor Lower Legal Immigration and Population Growth

Two Americans in three (68 percent) agree that the United States should set a goal of completely halting new illegal immigration. Over half (55 percent) support the related goal of reducing the population of 10 to 12 million illegal immigrants now residing in the United States “to near zero.” These were among the key findings of a new poll conducted …

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Americans Talk About Illegal Immigration – Poll Results (2006)

Table of Contents Introduction and Method Overview I. General Attitudes Toward Immigration II. Approval of Methods to Deal With Illegal Immigration Sample Demography Poll Questions Introduction and Method Overview This survey was undertaken on behalf of Negative Population Growth to explore several issues surrounding American attitudes toward illegal immigration and to gauge support for various measures to reduce it. Sample …

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Proposed National Population Policy

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version  NPG believes that a national policy to turn U.S. population growth around is critically needed. (See the FORUM series in the Publications on our web site, www.npg.org.) In this paper, we offer a series of specific proposals as to how to accomplish that goal. We recognize the political resistances in the way of …

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SIX INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

In the film An Inconvenient Truth, ex vice-president Al Gore presents the facts about climate change. It is a bravura performance. He makes use of brilliant presentational techniques to put before us all relevant current knowledge about climate change. He lightens the factual burden with humour, and by including some interesting

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Americans Talk About Illegal Immigration – Poll Results (2003)

Final Report Prepared by RoperASW March 2003 Table of Contents Introduction and Method Overview   I. General Attitudes Toward Immigration   II. Approval of Methods to Deal With Illegal Immigration   III. Views Regarding the Role State and Local Governments Should Play In Thwarting Illegal Immigration   IV. Penalties for False Identification Documents   V. Views Toward Employers and Illegal Immigration Appendices: Demography and Survey …

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Better Not Bigger (NPG Booknote)

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Better Not Bigger by Eben Fodor New Society Publishers, 1999 Reviewed by former NPG Executive Director Sharon McCloe Stein  American attitudes toward growth reflect a great deal of ambivalence.  Many see economic and population growth as good business, more consumers, more workers, more prosperity ÷ a rising tide that lifts all boats.  For …

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