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• £13 Billion per Year: What Immigration Costs the British Taxpayer

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 649
  Criminal immigrants held in British jails cost the taxpayer £283 million per year, new figures have revealed. This means that the annual total cost of immigration to the British taxpayer is now set at just over £13 billion per year. According to official figures revealed in Parliament, the bill for keeping foreign ...
  23 hours ago

• the kids (of gays) are alright

  
  Contexts Crawler — Authority: 122
  A recent New York Times  article reported on some of the data that is known about gay and lesbian parenthood and how children of same-sex parents turn out.  The Williams Institute at UCLA finds that approximately 115,772 American same-sex couples have children.   Summarizing the state of the field: Until ...
  2 days ago

• Guest Contributor Elizabeth Leahy Madsen: Pakistan’s Demographic Challenge Is Not Just Economic

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 123
  In a meeting with business leaders in Lahore in late October, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pointedly warned of the potential economic impacts of Pakistan’s rapidly growing population : “There has to be…in any plan for your own economic future, a hard look at where you’re going to get the ...
  2 days ago

• Reading Radar: The Youth Bulge Question

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 123
  Right now, Rich Cincotta is live on "PRB Discuss Online," answering the question, "Does a Young Age Structure Thwart Democratic Governments?" He is responding to reader questions like "Do Democratic governments being overcome by poverty and high unemployment rates have a chance to succeed" and "Why do you think ...
  3 days ago

• Welcome, all, during 2008-2009

  
  Grassroots Science — Authority: 99
  ClustrMaps Current Country Totals From 12 Nov 2008 to 12 Nov 2009 United States (US) 29,827 Canada (CA) 2,800 United Kingdom (GB) 2,602 India (IN) 1,181 Australia (AU) 977 Philippines (PH) 903 Singapore (SG) 413 France (FR) 411 Malaysia (MY) 399 Germany (DE) 380 Egypt (EG) ...
  4 days ago

• Who wants to leave, to stay - net results by country

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 129
  My thanks to demography.matters for his one. Gallup did a large survey of where people would like to live covering 136 countries. The US came in number one. However, they also took into account people in individual countries who wanted to leave those countries and then expressed the net results in terms of the size ...
  5 days ago

• Sooner babies means more babies. Its a boom.

  
  Peter Martin — Authority: 501
  Great, eh? Australia is in the grip of its biggest-ever baby boom with a record 293,600 babies born last year - 11,400 more than the year before. Roughly one third - 94,700 - were born in NSW. Births in this state are climbing faster than in any state other than Western Australia, increasing 5.8 per cent ...
  5 days ago

• Ending Social Promotion Leads to Gains in NYC

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 764
  New evidence shows that ending social promotion – the practice of allowing students to advance a grade level without having mastered the content of their current grade – is having a positive result in student testing. A new study released on October 15th by the RAND corp., shows how New York City seventh graders ...
  6 days ago

• The Grim Reapers Road Map

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 549
  The Grim Reaper’s Road Map: An Atlas of Mortality in Britain , which came out last year, “analyses over 14 million deaths over the 24-year period 1981-2004 in Britain. It gives a comprehensive overview of the geographical pattern of mortality,” including all deaths and deaths from a number of different causes. ...
  6 days ago

• Covering Climate: Whats Population Got to Do With It?

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 123
  “There’s a correlation between CO2 and population. And it’s that we live in a world of more people, more money and more things, and that all distills down to the need for more energy,” said Dennis Dimick , executive editor of National Geographic , at a Wilson Center event on the media’s coverage of ...
  6 days ago

• "the moral equivalent of climate change"

  
  UK Commentators — Authority: 469
  As so often, it takes a minority spokesman (or woman ) to say the unsayable in this country : Europe is "dying" because its citizens are too selfish to have children, the chief rabbi has said, blaming a dwindling birthrate on a culture of "consumerism and instant gratification". Sir Jonathan Sacks accused people ...
  1 week ago

• Income, fertility and the world’s demographic trajectory

  
  Resilience Science — Authority: 418
  The Economists looks at recent declines in fertility discusses current projections of world population, and how changes in a country’s demographic structure shape its economic development (but it doesn’t mention the role of urbanization).  In Fertility and living standards it writes:Sometime in the next few years ...
  1 week ago

• Canada’s birthrate is up

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  Rick Hiemstra, a director with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, reports today: “Birthrates are a measure of cultural vitality. Canada’s birthrate is up. See these new Statcan tables .”
  1 week ago

• Norwegian Wood

  
  A Fistful Of Euros A Fistful Of Euros — Authority: 538
  Well, if John Lennon had still been around today he would undoubtedly have entitled his song Norwegian oil, but whatever way you want to put it Norway is back in the news, and this time not because of adolescents who find themselves with no alternative to sleeping overnight in the bath-tub, but rather because its ...
  1 week ago

• Global Manufacturing, France Outperforms, As Spain Continues To Flounder

  
  A Fistful Of Euros A Fistful Of Euros — Authority: 538
  Well, it is not as if I relish rubbing salt into old wounds, but this quote from the latest piece by Ben Hall in Paris and Ralph Atkins in today’s Financial Times is just too good to resist. French manufacturing output rose at its fastest rate for nine years, according to a survey on Monday, confirming that ...
  1 week ago

• Weighing in on prostitution

  
  Contexts Crawler — Authority: 122
  In a recent article discussing the arrest of a local official in a prostitution sting, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune called upon sociologists to explain why men visit prostitutes: Some men are excited by the illicit risky behavior of prostitution; others like the consumer-oriented and simple transaction of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thousands demonstrate against naturalisation law in Bahrain

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Manama (Bahrain), Oct 30 (DPA) Thousands of demonstrators in Bahrain Friday demanded an end to the alleged politically-motivated naturalisation of Sunni Arabs and Asians on the island.The demonstrators formed a three-km human chain in the capital Manama to protest what the opposition describes as an effort to change ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Exactly Is Going On In Finland?

  
  A Fistful Of Euros A Fistful Of Euros — Authority: 538
  Finland, we have recently been told, is the world’s most prosperous nation, and it is deemed to be prosperous not only in monetary and financial terms, but also in terms of the implicit wealth of its democracy and governance. This striking assessment is to be found in the latest edition of what is known as the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Here Comes The European Recovery

  
  A Fistful Of Euros A Fistful Of Euros — Authority: 538
  Can’t you just see it? According to Eurostat in both the euro area (EA16) and the EU27, the seasonally adjusted household saving rate continued to increase and the household investment rate to decrease n the second quarter of 2009. In both regions the fall in business investment rates and profit shares continued, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Demographic Deceit & Optimism

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 148
  From Israel National NewsThe all time record of daily Jewish births at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, set on September 21, 2009, reflects the substantial rise in Israel’s Jewish fertility. Delivery rooms function at 100% capacity.Anyone claiming that Jews are doomed to become a minority between the Jordan River and ...
  2 weeks ago

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