The Most Important DecisionMaking Process

In: Policy review: the journal of American citizenship, Heft 1, S. 89-94

Abstract

Demography, the study of births & deaths, has a profound influence on people & public policy; governments or legislatures seem to have 'precious little influence on such matters.' It should have been possible to predict that the 52% increase in the fourteen to twenty-four age group in the US in the 1960s would have resulted in the overload of institutions, the teenage turbulence in the '60s & '70s, & the unemployment of today. The young people of the future will be paying to support the vastly enlarged number of old people that will exist once the youths of the '60s turn sixty-five; this becomes more alarming with consideration that population is now declining. World reproduction rates are beginning to decline & stability in world population may be achieved by 2010 or 2015. Modified AA.