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.

News Sources: Driver's Licenses for Illegal Immigrants

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday dropped a plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in his state because of overwhelming opposition to the proposal in an issue with repercussions in the U.S. presidential campaign. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Dean Hubbard - Professor of Public Policy, Sarah Lawrence College - Holder of the Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy, Hubbard’s expertise focuses on issues of immigrant laborers, U.S. labor law, employment discrimination and community organization.

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. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations Statistical Office and U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform on immigration and the environment, and is currently working on a federally funded study of undocumented migrants in the U.S. workforce.

Robert Smith - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Barnard College - Smith has authored numerous articles on immigration, and is currently revising book on Mexican immigration. He is co-author of a report to U.S. State Department comparing InterAmerican and Mediterranean-European migration systems.

News Sources: Drivers Licenses for Illegal Immigrants

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to grant illegal immigrants driver’s licenses has encountered a wave of opposition among New York State voters and politicians. In response to those concerns, he has announced the endorsement of the proposal by Richard A. Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism czar. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Dean Hubbard - Professor of Public Policy, Sarah Lawrence College - Holder of the Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy, Hubbard’s expertise focuses on issues of immigrant laborers, U.S. labor law, employment discrimination and community organization.

Robert Smith - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Barnard College - Smith is the co-author of a report to U.S. State Department comparing InterAmerican and Mediterranean-European migration systems. He is the author of numerous articles on immigration, and is currently revising a book on Mexican immigration.

Miguel Tinker-Salas - Chair of Latin American studies, Pomona College - Tinker-Salas' areas of expertise include contemporary Latin American immigration and the Diaspora; Mexican border society; Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries; Latin American history; and Chicanos/as and Latinos in the United States.

A Digital-Age "Safe House" for Mexican Immigrants

At first glance, the Casa Segura (The Safe House) may appear to function more like a miniature, digitalized Red Cross station than a work of art. The small solar-powered structures are being placed on properties across the Sonoran desert and are stocked with basic essentials such as water, medical supplies, and nutritional items. But Robert Ransick, a digital arts faculty member at Bennington College, has also equipped the structures with a dynamic bilingual web space that allows Mexican immigrants to share stories via an embedded touch screen interface.

News Sources: Undocumented Worker Crackdown

The Department of Homeland Security is about to issue new regulations on how businesses must respond when informed that there are discrepancies in a worker's tax records. Under the new rules employees would have a limited time to contact the Social Security Administration to correct the information or face possible fines. Critics say the federal crackdown on the hiring of undocumented workers will leave farmers without workers to pick crops, restaurants without cooks and dishwashers, and will reduce employment in the construction, janitorial and landscaping industries. Repoerters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including (click on names for contact information):

Dean Hubbard - Professor of Public Policy, Sarah Lawrence College - Holder of the Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy, Hubbard’s expertise focuses on issues of immigrant laborers, U.S. labor law, employment discrimination and community organization; and international labor relations.

Frank C. Wykoff - Elden Smith Professor of Economics, Pomona College - Wykoff is the author of Understanding Economics Today and Macroeconomics: Theory, Evidence and Policy. He is the editor of Economic Inquiry, the Journal of the Western Economic Association, and a consultant to the U.S. General Accounting Office, the U.S. Labor Department. and the U.S. Treasury Department.

Robert Smith - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Barnard College - Author of articles on immigration, currently revising book on Mexican immigration; co-author of report to U.S. State Department comparing InterAmerican and Mediterranean-European migration systems.