News coverage for "America's Tomorrow," the new PolicyLink multimedia series exploring race, changing demographic, and the nation's future.

1. IN THE NEWS
Table of Contents
EDITORIALS
 ―America‘s Tomorrow: Equity in a Changing Nation.‖
 ―Is Our Racial Gap Becoming a Generation Gap?
NEWS COVERAGE (PRINT & BLOGS)
 The Daily Beast ―The Browning of America
 Salon ―When Whites Say ‗What About Me?‘‖
 Colorlines ―Can You Picture America‘s Changing Demographics?‖
 Daily Mail ―Changing Face of America.‖
 SaludToday ―Interactive Map Shows Swell of Racial/Ethnic Diversity in the US.‖
 The Colorado Independent ―America‘s Tomorrow‘ Map Underlines Folly of Colorado‘s Latino-Alienating GOP.‖
 BET News ―People of Color Will Be New Majority.‖
 AOL Black Voices ―The Future Looks Brown.‖
 The Root ―Time-Lapse Map Shows America‘s Brown Future.‖
 News One ―Group Predicts Minorities Will Become Majority By 2040.‖
 BET News ―Census Reveals that Minorities are the Majority in the United States.‖
 Colorlines ―More Than Half of U.S. Children Under Age 2 are of Color.‖
 Oakland Local ―PolicyLink Talks Race and Class in a Changing World.‖
 San Francisco Chronicle ―PolicyLink Talks Race and Class in a Changing World.‖
 NY Amsterdam News ―Ignoring the Unemployed at Our Peril.‖
RADIO
 BBC Americana: Inside the USA
 KQED Forum
 Southern California Public Radio
 American Urban Radio Network

2. EDITORIALS
Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder and CEO, PolicyLink
America's Tomorrow: Equity In a Changing Nation
May 27, 2011
The face of America is changing.
And the fate of America hinges on how we react to -- and invest in -- those changes.
By 2042, a majority of Americans will be people of color. Already, California, Texas, Hawaii, New Mexico, and DC have
more people of color than whites. And today, nearly half of all children are kids of color.
By definition, if they don't succeed, the nation won't succeed.
There was a time not that long ago when we listened to the voices of tomorrow and invested in our national future. The GI
Bill, affirmative action, and strong unions all helped the "Greatest Generation" establish a potent and stable middle class --
and gave their children tangible hope for the future.
But we aren't doing that any more.
Many in the still-majority white population and political establishment don't see themselves reflected in the faces of
America's children. They are talking far more about slashing Medicaid and education funding than investing in the dreams
and needs of our children. Too many who have achieved success for themselves now want to pull up the ladder behind
them.
The results are obvious -- people of color are disproportionately saddled with high poverty rates, failing schools, poor
health, and under-invested communities.
But these challenges don't only affect communities of color.
White families that rely on the public education system struggle with these nationwide school budget squeezes. White
college students are graduating with six-figure debt. White workers who need public transit to get to their jobs are hurt by
the lack of forward-thinking investment. And white entrepreneurs are having to spend money giving new hires the job
skills a strong public school system should provide. That's no way to run a country.

3. So, how should America run?
The answer is equity -- just and fair inclusion.
For a long time, this push for equity came draped in moral language -- "we must invest equitably because it is the right
thing to do." But economists and community leaders alike know that equity has become an economic imperative, as well
as a moral one.
In the global economy, our remarkable diversity will be our calling card -- and it can be our most competitive asset. In a
diverse and interconnected world, America could be the most connected of all. The breadth and depth of our talent could
once again be unrivaled -- if we tap into the vast resource that is the next generation.
For America to compete moving forward, we can't continue squandering the skills and potential of millions of young men
and women.
As a nation, we can see our future and it is captured in the hopes and dreams of a 5-year-old Latina girl and a 7-year-old
black boy. Our success depends on theirs.

4. Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder and CEO, PolicyLink
Is Our Racial Gap Becoming a Generation Gap?
July 14, 2011
Since our founding, older Americans have sacrificed significantly to ensure that future generations grow up in a nation
rich with promise and opportunity.
But now, with talk of cutbacks to education, Medicaid, public transportation and critical infrastructure, many are reneging
on this historical commitment, calling instead for the "opportunity ladder" to be pulled up entirely.
What is the reason for this sudden divide?
The answer may be nothing more complex, or disheartening, than America's rapidly changing demographics.
We know that by 2042, people of color will be the majority in America. Already nearly half (46.5 percent) of our nation's
young people are of color, while more than 80 percent of seniors nationwide are white.
It seems that this dramatic gap has transformed our nation's unaddressed racial divide into a generational divide.
For the first time, America's seniors, business leaders, and elected officials simply do not see themselves in the faces of
today's young. For many, this signals less obligation and commitment to the kinds of programs and resources that would
help provide a boost for the next generation.
We're seeing this now with blocks and cuts to public education and sensible programs like Pell Grants, YouthBuild,
Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), and the DREAM Act, all of which would provide America's
youth with the tools and resources they need to compete and succeed in today's global economy.
It's no wonder that the places where this divide is most pronounced -- like Arizona -- have become ground zero for racial
tension and anti-immigrant sentiment, with older voters begrudgingly "protecting" their entitlements at the expense of
programs that serve young people, particularly those in low-income areas and communities of color.
And yet, this kind of stingy, self-interested policymaking hurts not just those who are African American, Latino, Asian
and Native American but the future of all young people, including those who are white. The white urban-dwelling family
that wants to send a child to public school is faced with the consequences of under-investment. The young white worker
seeking to rely on public transportation is disappointed. The impact of the racial divide extends beyond communities of
color.

5. We cannot allow this to continue.
Without targeted, meaningful investments in our public schools, higher education, workforce development, and job
creation programs -- as well as in the infrastructure and public transportation that make access to each possible - we will
all be left behind.
Thankfully, new and innovative policies are underway which will help strengthen nation-wide efforts to build
communities of opportunity in which everyone can prosper. This week, the Obama Administration launched the Strong
Cities, Strong Communities initiative to foster local innovation and entrepreneurship in our nation's cities. And earlier this
month, it was announced that $30 million is now available to continue funding the federal Promise Neighborhoods
program, which would wrap poor children across the country in education, health, and social supports from the cradle-to-
college-to-career.
Programs like these will help lay the foundation for a truly equitable and sustainable future for our nation.
But for us to cross the finish line, we must first see ourselves in the faces of America's tomorrow.

6. NEWS COVERAGE (PRINT AND BLOGS)
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The Browning Of America
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7. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011 09:01 ET
When whites say, "What about me?"
New research shows a big jump in white Americans saying they face racism. What are we missing here?
BY JOAN WALSH
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Did you know whites believe they face more racism than African-Americans do? That's what I've been reading in the
news lately. Two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a short piece about an intriguing study by researchers at Tufts
and Harvard University, under the headline, "White Americans See Anti-White Bias on the Rise." Since then the New
York Times weighed in with a fascinating "Room for Debate" discussion titled "Is Anti-White Bias a Problem?" TheRoot
likewise posed the findings as a question, albeit more pointed: "White People Face the Worst Racism?" Wednesday
Gothamist declared flatly: "Regarding Racism, Whites Think They Are the New Blacks."
What's going on here? Black unemployment is double the white rate, with black poverty on the rise and the mortgage
crisis hitting African-Americans hardest of all; there's proof that lenders gave blacks higher-interest and subprime
mortgages even when they had the same income and credit rating as whites. The drug war hits black people
disproportionately. So how in God's name can white people say they face worse racism? And who are these white people,
anyway?
Well, they're 209 white people, to be precise, chosen to reflect census data in terms of age, education and gender,
according to Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton, co-author (with Tufts' Samuel Sommers) of the study
titled "Whites see racism as a zero-sum game that they are now losing."
Even if you think it's plausible that whites are experiencing more anti-white bias in this rapidly diversifying country -- and
I do, more on that later -- the results are stunning. Not only do the white respondents believe anti-white racism has risen
enormously: On a scale of 1 to 10, whites gave anti-white racism a 4.7 over the last decade, up from 1.7 in the 1950s.
They also seem to think it's a bigger problem than anti-black racism, which they gave a 9.1 in the '50s but only a 3.6 in the
'00s. (Blacks thought anti-white bias had risen slightly, from 1.4 to 1.8.)

8. Norton points out that his study couldn't break down respondents by region, the rural-urban divide, by income or by
politics, so it's possible an over- or under-representation of a particular region, class or partisan sample might skew the
results a little. "It's clearly not perfect, but it's as good as we could do," Norton says, noting that differences in education
and age didn't change the results. Which didn't hugely surprise him, Norton said, given the prominence of big affirmative
action controversies, like the New Haven firefighter suit or the Seattle school desegregation conflict, in which whites have
claimed disadvantage. "So it isn't as though it never happens," Norton says. But where those controversies make big
headlines, "we don't look at disparities in child nutrition, or lead poisoning, or lots of other indicators" showing how
African-Americans are still disadvantaged.
I wasn't surprised to learn whites think anti-white bias is on the rise, but that they think it's a bigger problem than anti-
black racism is shocking, and alarming. Is it possible that some whites might experience more anti-white "racism" now
than they did 30 years ago? Well, not if you're trapped in the boundaries of discourse mostly defined in academia, where
people of all races can be bigots or prejudiced, but they can only be "racist" if they are a member of the socially,
politically and economically dominant group. But in our kaleidoscopic multiracial society, "racism" is a term that, like it
or not, has come to be used by every group, to cover slights ranging from a peer in one group not liking your group,
someone consistently disrespecting your group, to actual discrimination in education and employment. The idea that
whites can't face racism seems silly: In the San Francisco Bay Area, where we have leaders of every race, whites
disproportionately hold political and economic power, although political power is more diffused. But your chances of
having a non-white teacher, boss, co-worker, firefighter, beat cop, prosecutor or judge are pretty high. Grievances can be
misunderstood as racial; they may in fact be racial.
And in a society where whites will inevitably become a minority at some point in the next 40 years -- among California
schoolchildren, they already are -- will those complaints matter? Should they? It's hard to know exactly how to analyze
Norton's data, because it's mute on what respondents consider anti-white bias. Therefore it's hard to know what, if
anything, to do. In its "Room for Debate" feature on the whites and racism study, the New York Times sought out Victoria
Plaut of the University of California-Berkeley Law School, whose research on whites' attitudes toward diversity are
fascinating. Given the lack of information about the experiences and social class of the people in Norton's study, it's hard
to know whether Plaut's work has direct relevance, but it's worth discussing nonetheless.
Plaut's research "'What About Me?' Perceptions of Exclusion and Whites' Reactions to Multiculturalism," with co-authors
Flannery G. Garnett and Laura E. Buffardi, looked at five different studies designed to measure white and non-white
attitudes toward multiculturalism and diversity programs. Plaut and her co-authors found, maybe not surprisingly, that
whites tended to feel excluded by multiculturalism, where people of color felt included. But this reaction could be
lessened, or intensified, by a couple of variables. In one of the five studies, one group read a description of
multiculturalism and diversity activities that made clear that the experiences of white Americans were part of the mix; a
control group read an identical description, with no mention of white Americans. The whites who were told diversity
approaches included the experience of whites felt more "included" than those who were not. In another study, researchers
looked at subjects' "need to belong" -- it has an acronym, NTB, who knew? -- and found that whites with a strong need to
belong felt particularly excluded by activities and approaches around multiculturalism and diversity.

9. In an experiment known as "Me/Not Me," respondents were asked to quickly rate whether a series of terms having to do
with race, ethnicity and diversity had anything to do with them personally. It found that the white students related more
favorably to the terms associated with "colorblindness" -- equality, unity, sameness, similarity, color blind, and color
blindness – than to words associated with "multiculturalism": diversity, variety, culture, multicultural, multiracial,
difference and multiculturalism.
What does this tell us? The study authors (as do I) take for granted that it matters -- it would be a good thing -- if whites
embrace diversity and multicultural initiatives, whether in schools, workplaces and community groups, and they therefore
suggest that people designing such programs consider that "whites‘ reactions to multiculturalism … are rooted in the basic
social psychological need for inclusion and belonging." Stressing that multiculturalism encompasses the wide variety of
white ethnic and class experiences might help. Emphasizing words with positive resonance like "equality" and "unity"
might too.
That makes sense to me. As long as I've been writing about the changing demography of California, I've wondered about
rhetoric that seems to leave whites out of the future. I've never been a huge fan of the "people of color" umbrella when
wielded politically. It can be useful descriptively; it can also provide (false) confidence that "minority" issues can gain
"majority" support without whites, as long as African-American lawyers, Cuban teachers, Laotian refugees, Caribbean
entrepreneurs, Salvadoran doctors, fourth-generation Chinese real estate moguls, refugees from Mexican drug wars, and
third-generation welfare recipients of any non-white race can all stick together in a grand coalition. Good luck with that.
Last week I sent around via Twitter a fascinating map produced by the group PolicyLink (disclosure, I'm on the board),
"America's Tomorrow," which vividly shows the shifting demographic landscape between 1990 and 2040. (I've embedded
it below.) The map shows how America is changing, and it's a mind-blowing graphic tool. But it's silent about what it all
means. I think it means that every generation or two, Americans have to reinvent America, and we've never come up with
an idea that's truly racially inclusive -- and we're about to have to. But that vision has to include white people -- and not
only as the scared seniors Ross Douthat warns won't be able to trust brown kids, when it's their turn to support them via
Social Security and Medicare. I certainly don't think the map should be used as a way to scare white folks into investing in
brown kids -- or else.
In all of these discussions, I find myself thinking we need more empathy. On that very point, Michael Norton began his
article with a startling quote from Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, from the hearings on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to
the Supreme Court in 2009, which were racially divisive in a way they really didn't need to be. During discussions on
judicial "empathy," Sessions opined that "Empathy for one party is always prejudice against another." Really? What a sad,
cynical worldview. It's as though empathy is finite, like money in your bank account or gas in your tank. There's also the
assumption that if non-white people get more power and influence, they‘ll wield it at the expense of white people, the way
(many) white people did when the roles were reversed.
I was raised to believe empathy was what made us human, and that it's reciprocal: The capacity to stand in another's shoes
and feel for them is one of our great advantages. So I think we've got to try to understand why whites seem to believe
they're facing more bias than African-Americans, even if we're inclined to roll our eyes and either hope it's a research
problem (which I did) or hold on until what whites believe doesn't matter so much anymore. I trust the next far-more-

10. multiracial generation to feel for older and younger people, whatever their race. I believe that makes us not only human,
but American -- and I think I have a lot of company in that belief.
Here's the "America's Tomorrow" map. Tell me what you think

11. Can You Picture America’s Demographic Future?
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by Asraa Mustufa
Friday, May 27 2011
We‘ve reported on the country‘s changing demographics before. PolicyLink recently released atime-lapse map showing
where people of color will become a majority in the U.S. over the next 30 years.
By 2042, people of color will constitute the majority of our population. California, Texas, Hawaii, New Mexico, and
Washington DC already have more people of color than whites. You can check out what counties and states will become
majority non-white by decade, based on PolicyLink‘s projections. While these changes are expected to occur across the
country, the map shows major concentrations of people of color projected for southern states.
Last month, Think Progress released a map showing racial demographics by county today. They also featured some
neat infographics highlighting major changes over the last decade based on Census data.
PolicyLink is a research institute dedicated to advancing economic and social equity. Their CEO and founder Angela
Glover Blackwell said that the projections prove that the nation‘s success depends on the success of people of color, and
that equitable policies are increasingly becoming an economic imperative as well as a moral one.
―Many in the still-majority white population and political establishment don‘t see themselves reflected in the faces of
America‘s children. They are talking far more about slashing Medicaid and education funding than investing in the
dreams and needs of our children,‖ she said. ―As a nation, we can see our future and it is captured in the hopes and dreams
of a 5-year-old Latina girl and a 7-year-old African American boy. Our success depends on theirs.‖

12. The changing face of America: Time-lapse map reveals how non-whites will become the majority in U.S.
within 30 years
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 2:52 PM on 27th May 2011
By the year 2040, the majority of Americans will be people of colour - the minorities will have become the majority.
A fascinating new time-lapse map shows the increase in the non-white population across the decades.
It starts with 1990 and then predicts up to 2020, 2030 and 2040.
The map, titled the Map of America's Tomorrow, was produced by PolicyLink, a national research agency dedicated to
social equity. It illustrates what theroot.com calls the decade-by-decade 'browning' of America. It is said to be the first
visual representation of its kind of the country's racial future.
The all-inclusive term is used to describe their growth of the populations of blacks, Hispanics/Latinos and Asians. Angela
Glover Blackwell, the Founder & CEO of PolicyLink, said: 'This map makes crystal clear just how dramatically the face
of America is changing – and how quickly.'
'Already, nearly half of all young people are of color, and by 2040, people of color will become our nation's majority.
Melting pot: America can expect more and more integration, according to PolicyLink
'Clearly, this snapshot of our future has struck a chord, leaving no doubt that we must invest in and start building the
foundation of tomorrow's America today. Let's start now.'

13. The map, however, is causing some controversy. One commenter said: 'What a joke! This does not compare population
density. This does not differentiate between Native Indians, Blacks, Mexican's, Chinese etc... etc... This is just some few
people's wild guess put out for what reason! 'This map appears to me to be a hate stimulator. Nothing more.'
Looking to the future: In the next ten years the trends will continue, with more non-white people domination populations
of U.S. counties
Another commentator added: 'I am Chinese American and I objected to the grouping under Asian as coloured ... Chinese,
Japanese and Koreans are not coloured. Our complexion is white if not whiter than caucasians.'
Miss Blackwell said: 'Today, nearly half of all children are kids of color.'By definition, if they don't succeed, the nation
won't succeed. 'Many in the still-majority white population and political establishment don't see themselves reflected in
the faces of America's children. 'They are talking far more about slashing Medicaid and education funding than investing
in the dreams and needs of our children.
'Too many who have achieved success for themselves now want to pull up the ladder behind them. The results are obvious
- people of colour are disproportionately saddled with high poverty rates, failing schools, poor health, and under-invested
communities.
'But these challenges don't only affect communities of colour.
'White families that rely on the public education system struggle with these nationwide school budget squeezes. White
college students are graduating with six-figure debt. That's no way to run a country.'
Two months ago new census maps and data was released showing the stark geographical divide between America's black
and Hispanic populations as they become increasingly concentrated on opposite ends of the country.
The U.S. black and Hispanic populations are mostly concentrated in the South - but whereas the black population is
centred in the Southeast, Hispanics are mostly in the Southwest.
The biggest general population rises were in the Southwest and Southeast, but the largest falls came in the Midwest,
according to 2010 Census Bureau data.
Although Hispanics are concentrated in the Southwest, other areas of the South such as Alabama have posted significant
gains in Hispanic population share.
In many South states, the Hispanic population has doubled on ten years ago, with Hispanics outstripping whites for the
first time in New Mexico - 46 to 40 per cent.
The Census 2010 statistics showed the number of Hispanics in the U.S. reached 50million in 2010, with one in every six
Americans now a Latino. They now represent 16 per cent of the U.S. population of 309million. Minority groups were
behind an unprecedented 90 per cent of total U.S. population growth since 2000, due to immigration and higher Latino
birth rates.

14. May 19, 2011
Interactive Map Shows Swell of Racial/Ethnic Diversity in U.S.
This decade, the majority of youths will be people of color. By 2042, the nation will be a majority people of color. From
Southern California to rural Iowa, every corner of America is seeing these changes.
What does this interactive map (a still shown below) say about the future of America?
Go to the EquityBlog to add your thoughts.
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15. America’s Tomorrow map underlines folly of Colorado’s Latino-alienating GOP
By John Tomasic | 05.19.11 | 4:35 pmShare
During the Colorado legislative session just passed and during the midterm elections last year, state Republicans
embraced Arizona-style anti-illegal immigration policy proposals and harsh rhetoric that alienated Coloradans,
including non-white Republican politicians and supporters and, perhaps most dramatically, Latino Republicans.
Analysts called that kind of politics a sort of longterm suicide missiongiven the shifting demographics of the state. An
internet map of the country put out today by PolicyLink brings the point home. In the decades visualized by the map–
1990 to 2040– the population of the American southwest, including Colorado, transforms.
America’s Tomorrow from PolicyLink
Colorado lawmakers failed to complete a congressional redistricting map this session. The courts now have to draw the
lines. If the PolicyLink ―America‘s Tomorrow‖ map is accurate– and there‘s no reason to believe it‘s not– Colorado semi-
swing districts 3 and 4 will see dramatic demographic change in the next two decades and beyond. If GOP politics don‘t
significantly evolve soon, those districts, even as they‘re drawn right now, will be the Democrats‘ to lose.

16. People of Color Will Be the New Majority
A PolicyLink map shows that by 2042, the nation will be more colorful.
By Danielle Wright
Posted: 05/23/2011 12:15 PM EDT
By 2042, people of color will be the new majority, according to a new interactive map from PolicyLink, a national
research and advocacy institute.
The map shows the growth of people of color in America from 1990 to 2040. It is the first installment of a new
multimedia series called America’s Tomorrow: Equity in a Changing Nation. The series will highlight America‘s old and
new demographics and the people who are addressing the change.
One of those pioneers is Geoff Canada, president and chief executive officer for Harlem Children's Zone in Harlem, New
York. HCZ serves minority children from birth—with a program called Baby College, a series of workshops for parents
of children up to the age of three—to high school. Canada used the map as a centerpiece for a talk he gave in London
entitled ―How to End Poverty.‖
The majority of areas with populations of more than 50 percent people of color are in the Southwest, according to the
map.
(Photo: PolicyLink)

17. The Future Looks Brown
By Trymaine Lee on May 24th 2011 2:41PM
A recently released time-lapse map produced by PolicyLink, a national research agency dedicated to social equity, shows
the decade-by-decade browning of America. The so-called Map of America's Tomorrow, shows that by the year 2042 the
majority of Americans will be people of color. The map also shows the states and regions that will be most populated by
people of color, including blacks, Hispanics/Latinos and Asians.
"This map makes crystal clear just how dramatically the face of America is changing – and how quickly," said Angela
Glover Blackwell, the Founder & CEO of PolicyLink. "Already, nearly half of all young people are of color, and by
2040, people of color will become our nation's majority. Clearly, this snapshot of our future has struck a chord, leaving no
doubt that we must invest in and start building the foundation of tomorrow's America today. Let's start now."
The "we" that Blackwell is referring to are those who influence policy, such as legislators and policymakers, according to
PolicyLink. The group believes that the entire nation must take up the cause of advocacy on behalf of communities of
color, particularly for "fair, equitable and targeted investments."
According to the latest U.S. Census data, a growing list of major American cities have seen their native-born black
populations declining at an alarming rate - including Detroit, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., and among the biggest
losers Oakland and Chicago with losses of 25 percent and 17 percent, respectively - over the past 10 years.
Many upwardly mobile African Americans have moved to the suburbs or to the South. Others still have been forced out of
major cities by gentrification. Despite the shifts though, experts and data indicate that the overall number of ethnic
minorities, including blacks, will in total comprise the majority of America in the relatively near future.
PolicyLink said until now there has been no visualization of what this future will look like.

18. Time-Lapse Map Shows America's Brown Future
By: Jenée Desmond-Harris | Posted: May 25, 2011
"Map of America's Tomorrow" (PolicyLink)
It's no huge secret that by that by the year 2042, the majority of Americans will be people of color. Despite the fact that
many African Americans have moved out of major cities to the suburbs, experts and data indicate that the overall number
of ethnic minorities, including blacks, will in total comprise the majority of America in the relatively near future.
A recently released time-lapse map produced by PolicyLink, a national research agency dedicated to social equity,
provides a visual of this decade-by-decade "browning" of America. The "Map of America's Tomorrow" also shows the
states and regions that will be most populated by people of color, including blacks, Hispanics/Latinos and Asians.
"This map makes crystal clear just how dramatically the face of America is changing -- and how quickly," Angela Glover
Blackwell, the Founder & CEO of PolicyLink told AOL Black Voices. "Already, nearly half of all young people are of
color, and by 2040, people of color will become our nation's majority. Clearly, this snapshot of our future has struck a
chord, leaving no doubt that we must invest in and start building the foundation of tomorrow's America today. Let's start
now."
This is being called the first visual representation of its kind of the country's racial future. Check out the time-lapse map
below or at PolicyLink.

19. Group Predicts That Minorities Will Become Majority By 2040
Written by NewsOne Staff on May 25, 2011
PolicyLink, a research group is predicting that the Black, Hispanic/Latino and Asian populations will exceed that of
whites in America by 2040.
VIDEO:
―Already, nearly half of all young people are of color, and by 2040, people of color will become our nation‘s majority.

20. Minority Babies Are the New Majority
Census shows there are also more Black households headed by women than by Black married couples.
By Frank McCoy
Posted: 06/23/2011 07:31 AM EDT
Filed Under census
It was inevitable, but some people are still going to be shocked.
The Associated Press reports that for the first time in modern United States history minorities make up a majority of the
nation‘s babies. This reality is a combination of a burgeoning Hispanic population, continued growth among Blacks and
Asian-Americans, intermarriage and immigration by people of color from around the planet.
Racial and ethnic minorities will be the U.S. majority by midcentury. And according to PolicyLink, by 2042, people
of color will be the new majority.
New census data also reveals that more Black children are likely to be raised without a father present in their lives, as
there are now more Black households headed by women, most of whom are single mothers, than there are African-
American households with married couples.
Politicians, demographers and businesspeople will take note as the impact of greater numbers of minority children will
transform economic and government policies, as well as commercial opportunites, as the percentage of white older
Americans declines.

21. More Than Half of U.S. Children Under Age 2 Are Of Color
by Jorge Rivas
Friday, June 24 2011
New census data reports that more than half of the children under age 2 in the U.S. are of color. The data is just one more
sign that the country is growing more diverse, which is a cite of both excitement and anxiety for some lawmakers.
The findings also reinforce the prediction that by 2042, the majority of Americans will be people of color. Already,
California, Texas, Hawaii, New Mexico, and DC have more people of color than whites.
Last month, PolicyLink, a national research and advocacy institute, released ―The Map of America‘s Tomorrow,‖ a time-
lapse map showing the growth of people of color in the United States from 1990 through 2040.
Founder and CEO of PolicyLink, Angela Glover Blackwell says the fate of America hinges on how we react to — and
invest in — those changes.
―In the global economy, our remarkable diversity will be our calling card- and it can be our most competitive asset,‖ she
writes in a blog post. ―In a diverse and interconnected world, America could be the most connected of all. The breadth and
depth of our talent could once again be unrivaled - if we tap into the vast resource that is the next generation.‖
Blackwell says to get to the connected country she speaks of, equity is the answer. ―Just and fair inclusion.‖ For everyone.

22. PolicyLink talks race and class in a changing world (VIDEO)
Susan Mernit Mon, 27 Jun at 11:34pm
Manuel Pastor, director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity
By Oakland Editorial Team
In this first video of the "America's Tomorrow" series, PolicyLink Founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell interviews
Manuel Pastor - director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California.
In the interview Pastor – who is also professor of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, and co-author
with Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh of"Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future' – sheds light on recent
U.S. demographic changes and their impact on our nation's future.
This is part of a PolicyLink series on equity in a changing nation.

23. PolicyLink talks race and class in a changing world (with VIDEO)
In the first video of the "America's Tomorrow" series, PolicyLink Founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell interviews
Manuel Pastor, director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California.
In the interview, Pastor -- who is also professor of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, and co-author
with Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future -- sheds light on recent
U.S. demographic changes and their impact on our nation's future.
This is part of a PolicyLink series on equity in a changing nation.

24. Ignoring the Unemployed at Our Peril
By David R. Jones
The ―jobless recovery‖ must seem like a sick joke for the 14 million Americans who are out of work. But it didn‘t really
hit home to us just how bad the situation is until the Community Service Society‘s annual survey, ―The Unheard Third,‖
revealed last year that two-thirds of unemployed, low-income New Yorkers surveyed reported being out of work for more
than a year, with 31 percent jobless for three years or more.
How do families survive when workers have been unemployed for that long? To make matters worse, there are signs of a
growing reluctance on the part of employers to hire the long term unemployed. Perhaps this is because they have a
wealth of people scrambling for jobs. But what are the prospects for these Americans? What are we doing to ensure that
a generation of workers is not permanently left behind?
Focus Is on the Deficit
The response from our political leaders: They meet practically every day now to debate the ways to reduce the deficit.
The fact of massive unemployment – the jobs deficit - has not engaged these officials. Thus the problems of the economy
have been defined in terms of the deficit, not the millions of jobless. Here are some reasons why this may be so.
The high unemployment rate has not affected the stock market or business profits, which are booming. There may also be
a generational gap that is becoming a racial gap: while nearly half of the nation‘s young people are of color, more than 80
percent of seniors are white. As Angela Glover Blackwell wrote in ―America‘s Tomorrow‖ in PolicyLink: ―For the first
time, America‘s seniors, business leaders, and elected officials simply do not see themselves in the faces of today‘s
young.‖
It may be the case that unemployment is seen as primarily affecting people of color and the less educated, groups that lack
political clout. This is certainly true in New York City. Among low-income workers, job losses are particularly steep
among black New Yorkers. In the past year, 22 percent of low-income black households lost a job, compared to 17
percent of low-income white households. Also low-income blacks are almost twice as likely as low-income whites to
have experienced long stretches of unemployment. In 2009, only 9 percent of low-income blacks reported long stretches
of unemployment. That figure expanded to 16 percent a year later.
The effects of long-term joblessness have begun to set in among low-income New Yorkers. Among the unemployed in
the CSS survey, 76 percent of moderate and higher-income respondents thought that they could find a new job within a
year, compared to 55 percent of low-income respondents. But almost onethird of low-income respondents could not even
guess how long it will take to find a job. Much of the mainstream media has bought the arguments of those who say we
should cut public spending and relax government regulations on business as the answer to the problem of unemployment.
Historically, this has not been true. Cutting spending didn‘t work for Herbert Hoover. In 1932, in the depths of the Great
Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president on a platform espousing a balanced budget. But when he was elected,
he gave up this idea and turned to government programs that put people to work, like the Works Progress Administration
that employed millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public
buildings and roads. Almost every community in the United States has a park, bridge, or school constructed by this
agency.

25. Need to Be Proactive
If the federal government took a more proactive stance, certain job creation proposals could significantly lower
unemployment, including investing in transitional jobs programs such as the overhaul of our infrastructure and in energy
related industries as well as easing credit for the expansion of small businesses. Even President Obama‘s fiscal stimulus,
as one sided as it was – mostly tax relief, less on spending – was effective in creating and saving jobs.
Public-private partnerships may be part of the answer to creating jobs. A recent bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate to
create an American Infrastructure Financing Authority that would provide private capital investment in infrastructure –
but with accountability and limited government liability. And it would be owned by the taxpayers, not private
shareholders. Ideas like an infrastructure bank could provide one way to get around the political stalemate that now exists
in Washington over what to do about the economy.
New York City could do something about this problem. The Human Resources Administration‘s Back to Work program
– where almost all young applicants are sent to qualify for aid - is not a suitable option for most young people, many of
whom have not yet held a job. HRA should use this opportunity to reconnect these youth to educational services and job
training. The city should also be tamping down critical flashpoints. We have a chronically jobless group – young men of
color – who are indiscriminately and in huge numbers the target of police stop and frisk tactics that have more bearing on
repression than on fighting crime.
Also, the mayor simply ignored the fact that city summer jobs fell from 52,000 to 28,000 this year. He could have called
in help from his generous donor list – no one in the city has a longer list – but he did nothing. It simply wasn‘t important
to him. By ignoring the millions of the unemployed, public officials are helping to create a vast underclass of the jobless
for years to come, with all of the economic and social problems that would accompany it. We should be defining job
creation as no less than crucial for the economic security of the nation.
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David R. Jones is president and CEO of the Community Service Society (CSS), the leading voice on behalf of low-
income New Yorkers for over 168 years. The views expressed in this column are solely those of the writer. The
Urban Agenda is available on CSS’s website: www.cssny.org.

26. RADIO
“Immigration Debate”
BBC Americana: Inside the USA
June 5, 2011
PolicyLink Founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell discusses race, changing demographics, and America‘s future.
"Oakland's Black Flight"
KQED Forum
July 7, 2011
PolicyLink Founder & CEO Angela Glover Blackwell discusses the decline of African American populations
in Oakland, CA and major cities across the country in this hour-long interview also featuring Urban Habitat President and
CEO Allen-Fernandez Smith, and Malo Hutson, assistant professor of city and regional planning at UC Berkeley.
"The Nation's Growing Ethnic-Generational Divide, Illustrated."
Southern California Public Radio
July 19, 2011
The third installment of the new PolicyLink multi-media series "America's Tomorrow: Equity in a Changing Nation" is
highlighted, accompanied by an interactive chart illustrating America's growing racial and generational divide.
“Minorities Become the Majority.”
American Urban Radio Network
July 26, 2011
PolicyLink Founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell discusses America‘s widening racial wealth gap and other issues
as explored in the ‖America‘s Tomorrow‖ series. With an estimated 20 million listeners, AURN is the largest network
reaching urban America.