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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Myers, Dowell

Titel

IMMIGRANTS AND BOOMERS: FORGING A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR THE FUTURE OF AMERICA

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

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Sociological Abstracts

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• In his latest work, noted demographer Dowell Myers proposes a new way of thinking about immigration and the aging American population. Using California as an example, Myers examines how a growing immigrant population can offset the costs of an aging baby boomer population. The mass retirement of the boomers will leave critical shortage in the educated workforce, while shrinking the ranks of middle class taxpayers, and driving up entitlement expenditures. It is in the boomers' best interest to invest in the education and integration of immigrants and their children today, in order to bolster the ranks of workers, taxpayers, and homeowners that boomers will depend on ten to twenty years from now. In this vein, Myers calls for a new social contract between the older and younger generations, based on mutual interests and the moral imperative to provide for children and the elderly.