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• W210341411 abstract "Will it be different this time? Will there be continuity or change? Will there be polarization and conflict or a new consensus? These questions ani- mate social science studies of two distina but increas- ingly intertwined demographic revolutions: (1) a thirty-five-year wave of Third World immigration and (2) the passage into retirement and old age of the leading edge of the predominantly Anglo, 78-million-member baby boom generation. My focus here is primarily on the latter, specifically on whether aging boomers might mobilize politically to protect age-based entitlements-and how such action might affect younger generations that are increasingly composed of immigrants and their children. The attitudes of a largely Anglo boomer population toward younger, increasingly immigrant populations will largely determine whether America's generations will cooperate or compete politically. They will debate differing policy priorities within a national welfare-state framework forged more than seventy years ago during a period of remarkable national crisis and unity spanning the Great Depression, World War LT, and the Cold War. The most sacred entitlement legacies, Social Security and Medicare, were crafted when life expectancies were shorter and birthrates were higher- providing a much greater ratio of workers to retirees. Today's low birthrates, expanding life expectancies, and soaring medical costs are producing grim doomsday forecasts about these programs' fiscal futures. Future funding of these entitlements will depend upon the civic health of E Pluribus Unum and the strength of social bonds between older and younger citizens who increasingly diverge in terms of culture, age, class, and ethnicity. Will the intergenerational social contract that sustained twentieth-century old-age entitlements endure in the twenty-first century? Will anxious, aging boomers pay sufficient taxes to maintain and renew schools and societal infrastructure? Will younger irnmigrant populations endure rising payroll taxes to support the entitlements of aging Anglos? Do we need a renewed social contract for the twentyfirst century- or is the United States headed for the nightmarish, deeply polarized society portrayed in the dark science fiction classic Blade Runner? Renewed reciprocity between younger Americans and graying boomers depends upon the economic status and security of the boomers as they age. The deep recession triggered by the real estate and financial market meltdowns would appear to doom for the foreseeable future any redistributionist changes in the name of generational equity Most aging boomers will be far more dependent upon Social Security and Medicare than they once envisioned. And this increasingly vulnerable generation may constitute a potent political base geared to defend those programs against competing public-sector claims- especially those of newly arrived immigrants and their children. (A pre-existing movement structure awaits anxious boomers: the Washington-based gray lobby network, anchored by the 39-million- member AARP.) Such sociological topics test ideological strictures. First, immigration perceptions are framed by class-based worldviews. On the one hand, America's elites favor an internationalist, multicultural outlook congruent with global markets and high immigration levels. This post-American viewpoint assumes the nation state, its borders and national identities are passe. On the other hand, middle- and working-class citizens remain wedded to an older worldview rooted in American exceptionalism, economic and cultural nationalism, individual initiative and responsibility, local churches, communities, and family values, and they expect immigrants to assimilate linguistically and culturally. Second, there are strong, politically correct pressures to avoid racial stereotypes, positively portray ethnic minorities, celebrate cultural differences, and steadfastly support affirmative action policies. …" @default.
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• W210341411 title "Immigrants and the Politics of Aging Boomers: Renewed Reciprocity or 'Blade Runner' Society?" @default.
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