(2014) One-third of American women are on the verge of poverty: Almost 42 million adult women in 2012 lived in households with incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty threshold, according to The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back From the Brink.
(2014) The index disaggregates data by racial and ethnic group and by state in order to measure the “impact of a child’s race on his or her opportunity for success in adulthood,” according to the foundation.
By asoares
(2014) Poor sleep is often considered an individual problem, but it’s also a public health issue.
A population boom in energy-rich counties is breathing new life into parts of the Midwest and Appalachia that have experienced long-term population decline or slow growth compared with the rest of the United States, according to new data released by the U.
(2014) Ukraine, a former republic of the Soviet Union, has undergone a series of dramatic demographic changes since its independence in 1991. Most significant, its birth rate declined sharply following independence, mirroring similar developments in other former Soviet republics.
Many women in developing countries, too poor to pay for the reproductive health services they need, use vouchers to defray the cost of care.
Originally posted on the PRB blog.
(March 2014) The 8th Annual Conference on Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development was held in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2014.
(2014) Youth were everywhere at the November 2013 International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The young people brought energy and excitement, and played a big role in focusing attention on youth sexual and reproductive health and rights.
By asoares
(2014) Les structures et tendances démographiques d’Israël sont uniques, un reflet de l’avenir complexe de la région qu’il soit politique, culturel ou religieux.
Publié à l’origine sur le blog de PRB.
(Mars 2014) La huitième conférence annuelle de recherche sur la population, la santé de la reproduction et le développement économique s’est tenue à Nairobi au Kenya en janvier 2014.