Population Change in the United States

Steve Murdock, Ph.D. is the founding Director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas, Dr. Murdock holds the Allyn and Gladys Cline Chair in Sociology at Rice University. He is the former Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, The State Demographer of Texas, holder of a Regents Chair at Texas A&M University, The Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in Demography and Organization Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a noted scholar with 13 books and more than 150 articles and analytical reports. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from North Dakota State University, the Distinguished Rural Sociologist Award from the Rural, Sociological Society, a recipient of the Excellence in Research Awards from the Rural Sociological Society, Faculty Distinguished Research Award from Texas A&M University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and the Phi Eta Sigma national honorary societies. He is also noted in applied and Texas governmental circles having been named as one of the 50 most influential Texans by Texas Business in 1997 and one of the 25 most influential Texans by Texas Monthly in 2005. He has extensive experience in research on a wide variety of issues impacting Texas and is widely known as a national expert in the areas of Demography, Rural Sociology and Socioeconomic Impact Assessment.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2: Historic and Projected Patterns of Population and Household Change in the United States.- Chapter 3: Effects of Population Change on the Size and Characteristics of the Labor Force of the United States.- Chapter 4: Effects of Demographic Change on Selected Economic Factors Impacting the Public and Private Sectors in the United States.- Chapter 5: Impacts of Future Demographic Change on Education in the United States.- Chapter 6: Implications of Population Change for Health, Health Care, and Public Assistance Programs in the United States.- Chapter 7: The Effects of Demographic Change on Selected Transportation Services and Demand.- Chapter 8: Summary and Implications.- Conclusion.- References.