A talk about trade-offs in Texas
By Rob Harding
In a state where 95% of the land is privately owned, the trade-off between unchecked population growth and open space preservation in Texas is clear.
By Rob Harding
In a state where 95% of the land is privately owned, the trade-off between unchecked population growth and open space preservation in Texas is clear.
By Jeremy Beck
Immigration contributes to inequality. America has a special obligation to our citizens. And America’s economy is not working for the majority of citizens today. Those are three of Sir Angus Deaton’s – recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics – boat-rocking conclusions in his recently published article, “Rethinking My Economics,” on the International Monetary Fund’s website.
Americans have grown increasingly efficient with our use of resources (i.e., our per capita ecological footprint). But we haven’t grown more sustainable — that is, the U.S. ecological deficit (gap between footprint and biocapacity) has increased — because the amount of natural resources (i.e., our biocapacity) per person has also declined. Why? In part because we have converted them into urbanized areas to accommodate immigration-driven population growth.
By Jeremy Beck
Candidates who emphasize habitat and wildlife conservation have an edge in these Western states. But to fulfill campaign promises, conservation candidates will have to address immigration policy.
By Rob Harding
Idaho is the fastest growing state by rate. Gem State residents don’t want more unchecked growth, according to new polling data.
By Jared Culver
Since 2000, labor unions have abandoned their historical skepticism of mass immigration and gradually learned to love bloated labor markets.
By Jeremy Beck
Today is Barbara Jordan’s birthday. She would have been 88 years old. Tragically, she died in 1996, just before Congress voted on the immigration recommendations she developed over the last years of her life.
By Rob Harding
The consequences of our expanding population encroaching on America’s farm and ranch strongholds were on the minds of many attendees at the 2024 American Farm Bureau Convention.
By Jeremy Beck
“Idahoans want less, not more, population growth,” by Leon Kolankiewicz, Idaho State Journal