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2012 International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM/C Feb. 6, 2012, marks the ninth commemoration of the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. An estimated 100 million to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and more than 3 million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone. Since its origination in 2003, when the first lady of Nigeria, Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, officially declared "Zero Tolerance to FGM" in Africa, this day has been observed around the world. Commemorating Feb. 6 includes acknowledging the bravery of those who first spoke out against it, and some recent hard-won successes. But the challenges are still overwhelming. * PowerPoint: "Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting: Telling a Story With Trends" * Photo Slideshow: "Combating FGM in Villages in Senegal"
China Has Too Many Bachelors Dudley Poston, a professor at Texas A&M University, is fascinated by China's "demographic exceptionalism." The country has the world's largest population, and in the 1970s managed to achieve one of the fastest fertility declines in human history. China's one-child population policy has resulted in a number of unique demographic events and transitions, including an imbalance of the sex ratio at birth. Millions of extra boys have been born: Already, 41 million bachelors will not have women to marry.	Nearly 1 in 3 Working Families in U.S. Struggle to Meet Basic Needs The slow recovery from the recession has fallen hard on America's working poor families, increasing their numbers by 125,000 in 2010 to more than 10 million families, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data published in “Overlooked and Underpaid: Low-Income Working Families Increases to 10.2 Million,” by the Working Poor Families Project.
Appalachia's Slow Growth Not Seen in All Its Counties Appalachia's residents remain older, less educated, and less racially diverse than the United States as a whole, but those population trends vary widely by county, according to the 2011 Appalachian Regional Commission report prepared by PRB. One-third of the region's 420 counties lost population during the decade—mostly in the northern and central counties, as well as in parts of Alabama and Mississippi. But nearly one in four Appalachian counties grew at or above the national average.	A Post-Recession Update on U.S. Social and Economic Trends The Great Recession in the United States began in December 2007 and officially ended in June of 2009, resulting in a broad-based decline in America's economic well-being and security. This Population Bulletin Update is a follow-up to the 2010 Population Bulletin, "U.S. Economic and Social Trends Since 2000," by Linda A. Jacobsen and Mark Mather, and provides new data and analysis on the ongoing impact of the recession in the United States.

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