America by the Numbers: A Field Guide to the U.S. Population

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Is demography destiny Corporate marketers and government agencies act as if it is, producing mountains of statistics about Americans - mostly always remarkably inaccessible and dry. "America by the Numbers" puts the power of demography back in the people's hands, collecting and clearly explaining a vast amount of population data in easy-to-read, informative tables and graphs. From the new immigration to the ageing of America, this guide reveals how the ebb and flow of population shapes every public and private decision we make. In an engaging and accessible form, the study ranges across the US landscape as it offers facts about racial conflict, class division, health, schooling, family life, crime, and political participation.

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William H. Frey is a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and a research professor at the Population Studies Center and Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, where he founded and directs the Social Science Data Analysis Network. His books include Diversity Explosion and, with Bill Abresch and Jonathan Yeasting, America By the Numbers (The New Press).