Immigrants and Boomers:
Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America
By Dowell
Myers 
New York: Russell Sage
Foundation,
March 2007.
Link to Publisher for Information
Read Chapter 1,
The Introduction.
New Reviews (from Publisher)
Audrey Singer, “review in the Journal of the American Planning Association,” Autumn 2007, pp. 472-73.
Sammis White, “review in Economic Development Quarterly,” 2008, pp. 180-181.
Irene Bloemraad, “review essay in Contemporary Sociology,” July 2008, pp. 295-98.
Robert C. Smith, “review essay in Contemporary Sociology,” July 2008, pp. 298-302.
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--Henry
Cisneros
--Richard Alba
--John
Mollenkopf
--Marta
Tienda
Selected news media coverage
Miriam Jordan, “Boomers’
Good Life Tied to Better Life for Immigrants,” Wall Street
Journal, May 7, 2007
Jeffrey Rabin,
A Q&A column with Dowell Myers, Los Angeles
Times, February 27, 2007
D’Vera Cohn, “The
Divergent Paths of Baby Boomers and Immigrants,” Population
Reference Bureau, March 2007
Peter Schrag, “Guess Who
Will have to Help with Your Retirement?” Sacramento Bee, Feb. 21, 2007
Testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary hearing on
immigration (Ellis Island, March 20, 2007)judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/Myers070330.pdf
Podcast of an interview April 2, 2007 about the issues
in the book by Robert Greene in the Zocalo series through KPCC:
http://radiotime.com/ProgramDetails.aspx?ProgramId=66259 [Go
to Monday, Apr. 2]
Video Broadcast of Myers testimony in the California Senate before the Select Committee on Immigration and the Economy, chaired by Senator Gilbert Cedillo, June 9, 2008. [Note: Myers presentation begins in the 27th minute of the broadcast.]
Presentation “Immigrants and Boomers” for the National Association of Business Economists, January 2008
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