CAPS - Californians for Population Stabilization - organization summary

CAPS recognizes that California has developed a harmful positive feedback loop that involves over-immigration, a poor and deteriorating public educational system, and high fertility. These factors reinforce each other in negative ways: Over-immigration overwhelms the public schools with too many students who have little command of English. This is a major factor interfering with immigrant achievement and promotes dropping out of school early. Because of the well-documented inverse correlation between a woman's lifetime fertility and the amount of schooling she receives, these early dropouts will have, on average, high fertility. This will fill the schools with even more children and exacerbate further the overcrowding and other problems. This harmful repetitive cycle will never be fixed until immigration levels are reduced. Just to accommodate current rates of immigration-driven increase in the under-age-20 population, California would have to build a new school every other day and this need will continue for the foreseeable future.

The solutions are limiting immigration, encouraging lower fertility and educating the public about likely outcomes if we fail to take decisive action today. The most crucial task for those who care about California and the rest of the United States is to reverse the endless growth agenda supported by most of our elected officials and based on a "business as usual" attitude that continuing increases in population and consumption can go on indefinitely.

Population can and must be stabilized in the United States.