Population
Eduardo Rios
Rackeen Collins
Martha Juste
Although controversial, this topic serves
as somewhat importance for people
living in America. It’s vitally important
for everyone to know how much weight
each individual has to contribute to our
society.
What is Population?
There are various ways of
describing a population
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Can be a group of individuals
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Gender
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Ethnicity
Environments
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Location
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Type of housing
Outlining Population
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Balance beam of jobs to people
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“Social Structure”
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Immigration laws in effect
Scientific Method
RESEARCH QUESTION:As America changes
with influences from other countries,
America is now one of, if not the most
diverse country in the world. Now as the
population increases with immigrants, is
the increase in population affecting the
country positively or negatively, as far as
crime rates, employment, and the
economy?
If the United States’ population
increase with immigrants, then the
crime rate, employment and the
economy will increase.
We started collecting supporting information to help lead us
to a conclusion, is the increase of population which is related
to immigration affecting the country positively or negatively.
We went to countless creditable agencies like the
NATIONAL BEREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, US
Bureau of Justice Statistics website, and whitehouse.gov.
We’ve also seen a TV documentary “THE HISTORY ON
ORGANIZED CRIME” to get more detailed information. The
mini-series is divided into five chapters: Sicily, Russia,
Colombia, China and India. It delves into the history and
origins of how organized crime started and how it flourished
in America and how it continues to affect society today.
VARIABLE I.
CRIME RATE
VARIABLE II
EMPLOYMENT
VARIABLE III
ECONOMY
VARIABLE IV
POPULATION/ SOCIAL STRATA
Social Strata
Social Strata is a social class we are
categorized in.
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Social Strata:
• Upper class
• Middle class
• Lower class
Climbing up the Social Ladder
Household Income, 2000 (1999 Income)
Household Income, 1990 (1989 Income)
Number
Total
Househol
ds
Less than
$9,999
$10,000 $14,999
$15,000 $24,999
$25,000 $34,999
$35,000 $49,999
$50,000 $74,999
$75,000 $99,999
Percent of Total
Households
100.00%
14,214,497
15.45%
8,133,273
8.84%
16,123,742
17.53%
14,575,125
15.84%
16,428,455
17.86%
13,777,883
14.98%
4,704,808
5.11%
105,539,122
100.00%
10,067,027
9.54%
6,657,228
6.31%
13,536,965
12.83%
13,519,242
12.81%
17,446,272
16.53%
20,540,604
19.46%
10,799,245
10.23%
8,147,826
7.72%
Total
Househ
olds
91,993,582
Number
Percent of Total
Households
Less than
$9,999
$10,000 $14,999
$15,000 $24,999
$25,000 $34,999
$35,000 $49,999
$50,000 $74,999
$75,000 $99,999
$100,000
$149,999
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Miami-Dade
County
was
home
to
2,376,014 persons in
2005.
Of
these
residents, roughly onequarter were children
(people under 18) and
1 in 7 were seniors (65
years and older); while
females
outnumbered
males by 3.7 percent.
Hispanic Population and Race Distribution for Non-Hispanic Population
1980
Number
Total
Population
Total Hispanics
White*
Black*
American
Indian and
Eskimo*
1990
Percent
Number
2000
Percent
Number
Percent
226,545,805
100.00% 248,709,873
100.00% 281,421,906
100.00%
14,608,673
6.45% 22,354,059
8.99% 35,305,818
12.55%
180,256,103
79.57% 188,128,296
75.64% 194,552,774
69.13%
26,104,285
11.52% 29,216,293
11.75% 33,947,837
12.06%
1,417,110
0.63%
1,793,773
0.72%
2,068,883
0.74%
Asian*
Hawaiian and
Pacific
Islander*
3,489,835
1.54%
6,968,359
2.80% 10,123,169
3.60%
-
-
-
-
353,509
0.13%
Other*
Two or More
Races*
669,799
0.30%
249,093
0.10%
467,770
0.17%
-
-
-
-
4,602,146
1.64%
Workforce
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In July we went down to 6% from 6.3% in
the unemployment rate
‘The unemployment picture is hurt, not by
the lack of jobs but from the growing pool
of people”, Frank Nero.
For example: If there is 15,000 jobs
openings there will be an unbalance beam
of 25,000 people searching for them
Immigration Laws

INA (Immigration and Nationality
Act)
• This can include homeland security
which states that even though you have
no record, as long as you show proof
you were born before a certain date
then you are hereby a legal resident.
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IRCA (Immigration Reform and Control
Act)
• Aliens who have been unlawfully living residing
in the U.S before January 1, 1982 and were
legalized through the INA then you are able to
continue living here as a resident
• Aliens employed in an agricultural work for
minimum of 90dys prior to May of 1986 and
legalized under the INA then you can continue
to live here as a resident.
Cutting into Miami-Dade
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To put all this together we can
conclude that because of these laws
we now have 4.2% of Haitians living
in Miami-Dade in 2000, according to
the U.S. Census Bureau.
The largest group is the Cubans.
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Immigration and their lenient laws
has a great amount influence on our
population. We are tied between
finding a right solution to our Cuban
and Haitian affairs to basically giving
rights to the people. Such as:
• Wet feet-dry feet
• USCIS The New Naturalization Test
According to the U.S. Census, in the year
2006 the 300th million American citizen
more than likely was a Latino…
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Crime has been
around for ages,
and in today’s world
a lot of crime is
motivated by the
spread and usage of
drugs.
Many of the Mafia members who came to
America in the early 1920s helped
establish the La Cosa Nostra or the
American Mafia. This is not to say that
there isn’t other organized crime in this
country. Beyond the American (Italian)
Mafia, the FBI recognizes Eurasian, Asian
and African organized crime groups active
in this country.
Because of these immigrant groups, a lot of crime enters the country by way of
drugs.
George Borjas, an economist whose work is often
cited favorably by anti-immigration groups. "The
empirical evidence indicates that immigrants only
have a minor effect on the earnings and
employment opportunities of natives." About
illegal's in particular, he writes, "There is no
evidence . . . that illegal immigration had a
significant adverse effect on the earnings
opportunities of any native group, including
blacks" (1990, 221, 90).
Butcher and Card "tracked wages in 24 major
cities during the period from 1979 to 1989" using
micro data from the U.S. Census and Current
Population Surveys. They conclude, [T]he
evidence we have assembled for the 1980s
confirms the conclusions from earlier studies of
1970 and 1980 census data. In particular, we find
little indication of an adverse wage effect of
immigration, either cross-sectionally or within
cities over time. Even for workers at the 10th
percentile of the wage distribution, there is no
evidence of a significant decline in wages in
response to immigrant inflows (1991, 296).
The NATIONAL BEREAU OF
ECONOMIC RESEARCH says "The
1980-2000 immigrant influx,
therefore, generally explains' about
20 to 60 percent of the decline in
wages, 25 percent of the decline in
employment.
There is evidence that a rising tide of immigration is partly
to blame. Now, a new NBER study suggests that immigration
has more far-reaching consequences than merely depressing
wages and lowering employment rates: its effects also
appear to push some would-be workers into crime and, later,
into prison. "Remarkably, as far as we know, no study has
examined if there is a link between the resurgence of largescale immigration and the employment in our population,"
co-authors George Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon
Hanson
At the end of our experiment, our hypothesis is neither right
or wrong. Who can really say that they or their past
generations are 100 % American? Thus for, all the data that
bureaus provide with the information we supplied ourselves
will not really reflect the truth about immigration which is
apart of the increase in population, affects crime rates,
employment and the economy in a positive or negative
manner… we are all IMMIGRANTS! What we can conclude is
that population is increasing day by day. For the most part
having lenient or stricter laws for immigrants will just prove
that we are still a growing population. Our economy grew,
the percentage of employed people dropped and the crime
rate is still in affect.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/14495/brief_history_of
_the_mafia_and_organized.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
http://www.afsc.org/miami/statistics.htm
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/)
http://desip.igc.org/mapanim.html
http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/us_cities_population.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395419/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
"The World History of Organized Crime" (2001) (mini)TV
mini-series Director: Scott Alexander Genre: Documentary
http://www.nber.org/digest/may07/w12518.html (EMPLYMENT)
http://stlouisfed.org/publications/re/2006/d/pages/immigration.ht
ml
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/news/2007,0430-crs.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/cea_immigration_062007.html
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/back504.html
http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_race.html
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