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TribuneFest: Will Boom Go Bust? Demographics is Destiny

AAt our 2/27 symposium on demographic change at the University of Texas at El Paso, former state demographer and U.S. Census Bureau directdor Steve Murdock discussed how population shifts will affect public policy.

by Evan Smith

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At our Feb. 27 symposium on the effects of demographic change in Texas, held on the University of Texas at El Paso campus, former state demographer Steve Murdock, a past director of the U.S. Census Bureau, discussed how population shifts, current and future, will affect public policy. 

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