David G. Gutiérrez
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451409
- eISBN:
- 9780801465642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451409.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter returns to the subject of immigration, from when the American Catholic century began. Senator Edward Kennedy led the reform of the nation's immigration laws. Latino Catholic immigrants, ...
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This chapter returns to the subject of immigration, from when the American Catholic century began. Senator Edward Kennedy led the reform of the nation's immigration laws. Latino Catholic immigrants, in particular, currently make up at least one-third of the U.S. Catholic population, and their importance for both church and society only increases. Roughly seven out of ten of these Latinos identify as Catholic, and there is a continuous effort to sustain the allegiance of Latino Catholics against the twin competitors of secularization and Protestant evangelicalism. The chapter suggests that the rapid secularization of Euro-American Catholics makes the role of Latinos even more crucial for Catholicism's future. The sharpest declines are in once heavily Catholic areas such as New England, where detachment from the institutional church is transforming the religious ethos of the region.Less
This chapter returns to the subject of immigration, from when the American Catholic century began. Senator Edward Kennedy led the reform of the nation's immigration laws. Latino Catholic immigrants, in particular, currently make up at least one-third of the U.S. Catholic population, and their importance for both church and society only increases. Roughly seven out of ten of these Latinos identify as Catholic, and there is a continuous effort to sustain the allegiance of Latino Catholics against the twin competitors of secularization and Protestant evangelicalism. The chapter suggests that the rapid secularization of Euro-American Catholics makes the role of Latinos even more crucial for Catholicism's future. The sharpest declines are in once heavily Catholic areas such as New England, where detachment from the institutional church is transforming the religious ethos of the region.
Jagadeesh Gokhale
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226300337
- eISBN:
- 9780226300368
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226300368.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
Analyzing Social Security's finances and the impact of reforms requires a model of both the program itself and of the population that it will affect. Most studies of Social Security use highly ...
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Analyzing Social Security's finances and the impact of reforms requires a model of both the program itself and of the population that it will affect. Most studies of Social Security use highly stylized mathematical models of the economy and highly stylized Social Security rules. This chapter describes the development of its initial population of individuals and families as of the year 1970. It describes how the simulation controls the construction of the initial population in detail to match the U.S. population structure during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The controls and matching procedures are based on information from microdata surveys that are statistically closely representative of the U.S. population—mainly the Current Population Survey (CPS; Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statitistics, various years). The construction is validated against the entire sample of the CPS to convince the reader that this part of the simulation “works.” The demographic features that are simulated include several attributes of the U.S. population as they evolve through time.Less
Analyzing Social Security's finances and the impact of reforms requires a model of both the program itself and of the population that it will affect. Most studies of Social Security use highly stylized mathematical models of the economy and highly stylized Social Security rules. This chapter describes the development of its initial population of individuals and families as of the year 1970. It describes how the simulation controls the construction of the initial population in detail to match the U.S. population structure during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The controls and matching procedures are based on information from microdata surveys that are statistically closely representative of the U.S. population—mainly the Current Population Survey (CPS; Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statitistics, various years). The construction is validated against the entire sample of the CPS to convince the reader that this part of the simulation “works.” The demographic features that are simulated include several attributes of the U.S. population as they evolve through time.
David R. Diaz and Rodolfo D. Torres (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814784044
- eISBN:
- 9780814724705
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814784044.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The nation's Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15 percent of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 million, and a growing portion of the world's population now lives and ...
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The nation's Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15 percent of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 million, and a growing portion of the world's population now lives and works in cities that are increasingly diverse. This book provides the first national perspective on Latina/o urban policy, addressing a wide range of planning policy issues that impact both Latinas/os in the United States, as well as the nation as a whole, tracing how cities develop, function, and are affected by socio-economic change. The three sections of the book address the politics of planning and its historic relationship with Latinas/os, the relationship between the Latina/o community and conventional urban planning issues and challenges, and the future of urban policy and Latina/o barrios. Moving beyond a traditional analysis of Latinas/os in the Southwest, the book expands the understanding of the important relationships between urbanization and Latinas/os including Mexican Americans of several generations within the context of the restructuring of cities, in view of the cultural and political transformation currently encompassing the nation.Less
The nation's Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15 percent of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 million, and a growing portion of the world's population now lives and works in cities that are increasingly diverse. This book provides the first national perspective on Latina/o urban policy, addressing a wide range of planning policy issues that impact both Latinas/os in the United States, as well as the nation as a whole, tracing how cities develop, function, and are affected by socio-economic change. The three sections of the book address the politics of planning and its historic relationship with Latinas/os, the relationship between the Latina/o community and conventional urban planning issues and challenges, and the future of urban policy and Latina/o barrios. Moving beyond a traditional analysis of Latinas/os in the Southwest, the book expands the understanding of the important relationships between urbanization and Latinas/os including Mexican Americans of several generations within the context of the restructuring of cities, in view of the cultural and political transformation currently encompassing the nation.
Vicki A. Freedman, Linda G. Martin, Jennifer Cornman, Emily M. Agree, and Robert F. Schoeni (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226132310
- eISBN:
- 9780226132327
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226132327.003.0014
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
This chapter investigates the older U.S. population trends in forms of assistance with daily activities and disparities in assistance by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Significant ...
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This chapter investigates the older U.S. population trends in forms of assistance with daily activities and disparities in assistance by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Significant disparities in assistance are evident by racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status. The chances of using any help and the chances of using nothing have both declined in relation to the use of assistive technology (AT) alone, the increases in which appear to be widely experienced. Higher levels of education are connected with higher probabilities of using technology independently to carry out daily activities. The chapter shows that, for most groups, increases in AT appear to be offset by decreases both in the use of help and in unassisted difficulty, with declines in the latter twice as large as declines in help.Less
This chapter investigates the older U.S. population trends in forms of assistance with daily activities and disparities in assistance by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Significant disparities in assistance are evident by racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status. The chances of using any help and the chances of using nothing have both declined in relation to the use of assistive technology (AT) alone, the increases in which appear to be widely experienced. Higher levels of education are connected with higher probabilities of using technology independently to carry out daily activities. The chapter shows that, for most groups, increases in AT appear to be offset by decreases both in the use of help and in unassisted difficulty, with declines in the latter twice as large as declines in help.
Gwyneth Mellinger
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037382
- eISBN:
- 9780252094644
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037382.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE (American Society of News Editors) diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics ...
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This book explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE (American Society of News Editors) diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with those of the U.S. population. Drawing upon exhaustive reviews of ASNE archival materials, the book examines the democratic paradox through the lens of the ASNE, an elite organization that arguably did more than any other during the twentieth century to institutionalize professional standards in journalism and expand the concepts of government accountability and the free press. The ASNE would emerge in the 1970s as the leader in the newsroom integration movement, but its effort would be frustrated by structures of exclusion that the organization had embedded into its own professional standards. Explaining why a project so promising failed so profoundly, the book expands our understanding of the intransigence of institutional racism, gender discrimination, and homophobia within democracy.Less
This book explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE (American Society of News Editors) diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with those of the U.S. population. Drawing upon exhaustive reviews of ASNE archival materials, the book examines the democratic paradox through the lens of the ASNE, an elite organization that arguably did more than any other during the twentieth century to institutionalize professional standards in journalism and expand the concepts of government accountability and the free press. The ASNE would emerge in the 1970s as the leader in the newsroom integration movement, but its effort would be frustrated by structures of exclusion that the organization had embedded into its own professional standards. Explaining why a project so promising failed so profoundly, the book expands our understanding of the intransigence of institutional racism, gender discrimination, and homophobia within democracy.
