Will Rising Childhood Obesity Decrease U.S. Life Expectancy?
A new study contends that rising childhood obesity rates will cut average U.S. life expectancy, but there is debate about the effects of obesity on mortality, and about the biological limits of a human lifespan. (May 2005)

Changing Patterns of Poverty and Spatial Inequality in Appalachia
While the U.S. poverty rate broadly declined in the 1990s, Appalachia had a mixture of economic winners and losers during the decade. This report provides a first look at Appalachian poverty based on new data from the 2000 Census. (May 2005)

PRB Survey of Population Education
In late 2004, the Population Reference Bureau, with the assistance of the Minnesota Alliance of Geography Education, conducted a survey of secondary school teachers who teach population and related topics in their classrooms. (April 2005)

Is 'Increasing Mobility' a Threat to U.S. Elder Care?
According to a new analysis of Census Bureau data, U.S. elder care is not being threatened by increasing mobility because of one simple fact: The United States is not an increasingly mobile society, if "mobility" means the propensity to move house. (April 2005)

Surprising Social Factors Linked to Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Youth Violence in the U.S.
Why do black youth in the United States commit violent acts almost twice as often as white or Latino youth? Researchers at Harvard University have found that the reasons have little to do with individual poverty or inherent racial differences. (April 2005)

Number of U.S. Undocumented Migrants Rises, but Policy Response Still Lacking
The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has increased 23 percent over the last four years to 10.3 million people, according to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center. And more than one-half of the undocumented are from Mexico. (April 2005)

Tracking Who We Are and Where We Are Going: Using the American Community Survey (PDF: 556KB)
This report uses statistics from the American Community Survey for two Maryland counties outside of Washington, DC—Calvert and Prince George’s—to explain and demonstrate how to use data from the survey. (April 2005)

U.S. House Seats Continue to Shift South and West
New state population projections indicate that the U.S. population continues to move south and west, a trend likely to affect the future political balance of power in the United States. (April 2005)

U.S. Military's Reliance on the Reserves
As military reservists continue to constitute nearly 40 percent of the 150,000 U.S. forces now deployed in Iraq, debate continues to grow about the military's current reliance on the reserves. (March 2005)

Many Unwed Low-Income Parents in U.S. Need Both Relationship Skills and Employment Programs
Decreasing the risk of poverty and health, educational, and behavioral problems among children born to unwed low-income parents will require programs that address those parent's skills and needs. (March 2005)