{"id":54625,"date":"2017-07-23T23:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T23:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54625"},"modified":"2017-07-23T23:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T23:36:47","slug":"how-young-americans-are-set-to-change-the-us-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54625","title":{"rendered":"How young Americans are set to change the US forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

How young Americans are set to change the US forever<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2017-07-18<\/p>\n

William H. Frey<\/a>,<\/strong> Senior Fellow
\nMetropolitan Policy Program
\nBrookings Institution, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

William H. Frey is the author of <\/em>Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Older white Americans still hold most of the economic and political power in the US. But the great ethnic diversity of younger generations means that change is coming.<\/em><\/p>\n

America’s workforce, politics and place on the world stage will soon be changed forever.<\/p>\n

So great and so rapid are the shifts in the country’s population, that, in the coming decade, the US<\/a> is set to be transformed far more than other nations.<\/p>\n

Almost half of millennials and children are from ethnic minority groups<\/a> and it is this great diversity that is at the heart of demographic changes.<\/p>\n

As the country comes to rely on them for its future prosperity, everyone will have to consider how society must change to make a success of this new reality…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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