In her regular "My Time" column in the Washington Post, Abigail Trafford argues that with "more people living longer and couples having fewer children, the influx of immigrants--who tend to be young adults--helps stabilize the balance between generations." In fact, immigration postpones the day of reckoning "so that we can start the debate now and develop a national blueprint to meet the needs of our aging population."
Source: "Immigration Is An Aging Issue" Washington Post (April 18, 2006)
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