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Date March 10, 2026

A Growing Population, a Shrinking River

If current trends continue, the Colorado River system will lose its remaining resilience to withstand further dry periods. The combination of declining flows and rising demand threatens the region's rivers, wetlands, fish, and wildlife.

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Date March 6, 2026

Mass Immigration Is Holding Back American Modernization

Three recent pieces of writing – a New York Times column by Binyamin Appelbaum, a New York Times guest essay by Johns Hopkins economist Jonas Nahm, and a newsletter from American Compass by Oren Cass and Daniel Kishi – converge on a conclusion that should reshape how Americans think about immigration policy: mass immigration is … Continued

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Date February 27, 2026

Mass Immigration is Pushing Wildlife to the Margins

Wildlife conflicts are not as much the result of animals encroaching on humans, but of people expanding into wildlife space. Human population growth narrows migration corridors, reduces buffer zones, and displaces habitat. As a result, encounters that once would have occurred deep in forests or remote valleys now happen in neighborhoods and school zones.

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Date February 25, 2026

Drivers of Decline: Environmental Stressors of Chesapeake Bay

As more people move into the Chesapeake Bay region, development has turned forests, farms and other landscapes into subdivisions, shopping centers and parking lots. As more people have moved in, the health of the Bay has, inevitably, declined.

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Date February 23, 2026

Jesse Jackson’s Fight for American Tech Workers

"There has not been the same intensity of recruiting young African and young Latino Americans to be in the pipeline. . .We know that there is no talent deficit. There is an opportunity deficit."

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Date February 16, 2026

Overloading Chesapeake Bay: Population Growth Stresses America’s Largest Estuary

Over the past twenty-five years, NumbersUSA has published numerous scientific reports on the causes and consequences of sprawl in the United States. Our most recent study quantifies ecological decline in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed over the past three decades. Looking forward, we explore a path toward ecological sustainability centered on stabilizing the region's population through reduced immigration.

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Date February 12, 2026

Reduced Immigration Helps to Lower Rents

A pronounced slowdown in net immigration (legal and illegal) has slowed population growth, eased housing demand, and made rents more affordable in several markets.

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Date February 8, 2026

The Worst of the ICE Reform Demands

Democratic Leaders Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries released their 10 demands last week. While Leader Thune said the demands were "unrealistic and unserious," several would prevent immigration enforcement outright, including:

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Date February 4, 2026

Watershed Woes

Despite half a century of efforts to improve water quality and restore fisheries in America's Chesapeake Bay, its ecological health continues to decline. A new study from NumbersUSA quantifies this ecological decline within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, explores its causes, and discusses possible futures.

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