The Growing Color Divide in U.S. Infant Mortality
How one fares in the United States has been characterized by a racial division that begins at birth with disparities in health care.
Area of Expertise: The U.S. Census and Public Data
PopWire: Veterans Are More Likely to Be Homeless Than Other Civilians
(2007) U.S. veterans tend to be better off economically than nonveterans. They enjoy higher median incomes and a lower unemployment rate than their nonveteran peers.
Hispanic Segregation in America’s New Rural Boomtowns
(September 2007) America’s Hispanic population is on the move. One-third of recent Mexican immigrants to the United States from 1995 to 2000 settled outside of traditional gateway states in the Southwest (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California).
Education and Occupation Separates Two Kinds of Immigrants in the United States
New estimates from the U.S.
New Database Reveals State Variations in the U.S. Science and Engineering Labor Force
(2007) The database created by the Population Reference Bureau reveals geographic differences in characteristics of people working in the science and engineering (S&E) labor force.
PopWire: Hispanic Immigrants to U.S. See Progress on Wages
(September 2007) Although immigrants are more likely to be low-wage workers than high-wage workers, how foreign-born workers fare depends on their country of origin and year of entry.
U.S. Racial/Ethnic and Regional Poverty Rates Converge, but Kids Are Still Left Behind
(2007) New poverty estimates from the U.S.
PopWire: More Than 300 U.S. Counties Are Majority-Minority
(August 2007)—More than 300 U.S.
Disability and Aging
(August 2007) The rates of old-age disability have declined in recent decades, and it is expected that Americans will live longer before disability sets in than is true today.
World Population Highlights 2007: Migration
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world’s population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.