News Sources: U.S. Population Growth by 2050

The U.S. population will reach 438 million in 2050, with 82 percent of the growth coming from immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants, according to a new study. During the next half century, the Latino and Asian populations will triple and the non-Hispanic white population will grow by 4 percent, said the study by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan group in Washington. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the colegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges and universities, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Katya Gibel Azoulay - Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies, Grinnell College - Azoulay's primary research interest is with race and racial identities. She has a unique perspective on race, including the demographics of minorities in elections, and is the author of Black, Jewish and Interracial: Its Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin and Other Myths of Identity.

James Martin-Schramm - Professor of Religion, Luther College - Martin-Schramm can discuss world population, overpopulation, Protestant ethical position on world population, population and consumption of resources. He wrote and presented NGO Protestant Position Paper to United Nations Conference on World Population.

Ellen Percy Kraly - Associate Professor of Geography, Colgate University - Kraly's studies on emigration are displayed in exhibits on Ellis Island and frequently cited in national publications. Consultant to the United Nations Statistical Office and U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform on immigration and the environment. Currently working on a federally funded study of undocumented migrants in the U.S. workforce.