Carmen DeNavas-Walt prepared the income section of this report under the direction of Edward J. Welniak Jr., Chief of the Income Surveys Branch. Bernadette D. Proctor prepared the poverty section and Cheryl Hill Lee prepared the health insurance coverage section, both under the direction of Sharon Stern, Chief of the Poverty and Health Statistics Branch.

No abstract

No abstract

The college population of the United States will grow more slowly and unevenly geographically, and it will be older on average, increasingly more diverse, and likely less affluent. By midcentury a majority of the college population will be minorities, and all of the net increase in the college population will come from minorities. Demographic Factors Affecting Higher Education in the United States in the Twenty-First Century Steve H. Murdock, Md. Nazrul HoqueOf the potentially significant changes in the U.S. population that will have an effect on future educational needs and services, three are among the most important relative to the magnitude of their potential impacts: the decline in the rate of population growth and changes in the sources of such growth, the aging of the population, and the increase in the number and proportion of minorities in the United States. These factors have been shown to have a marked impact on demographic, socioeconomic, and service factors (Murdock, 1995;Murdock and others, 1997).

No abstract