Immigration Policies

The present immigration policy of the United States not only regulates the quantity of the immigrant population but is selective as to quality. Designed to favor certain groups of nationalities, it encourages the Nordic racial types of northwestern Europe and restricts the Mediterranean and Alpine types of southern and southeastern Europe.

Population Distribution

The most significant movements of peoples relate to their concentration in centers of high density where the question is arising whether the larger cities are becoming too crowded to be comfortable and economical.

Optimum Population

The future is likely to bring continuing discussion of the optimum population, which is turn may effect the validity of present predictions. The forces which determine the size of our population may be expected to vary from time to time, so that in the future numbers may fall and later rise again, but within the near future the prospect is for further decline in rates of increase

Rate of Population Growth

The rate of population growth in the United States has long been declining but this fact has perhaps been obscured because of the size of the net increase decade by decade.