By asoares
(December 2009) The United States—one of the world’s wealthiest countries—consistently has higher infant mortality rates than most other developed countries. In 2005, 29 countries had lower rates, including Cuba and Poland.
(2009) Changing demographics in the United States present an opportunity for the advancement of minorities into higher-paying occupations.
(December 2009) For a long time, Afghanistan has been a country with a high and stable birth rate, a country where women averaged about eight children each, and a country in which one-fourth of its children were likely to die before reaching their fifth birthday.
(2009) It is estimated that 5,000 women worldwide are murdered every year in so-called “honor killings”—committed by a woman’s relatives in order to cleanse the family of acts the woman has engaged in that they consider “immoral.
(2009) With the proportion of older people increasing in the United States and around the world, nations face new challenges and opportunities, particularly in health care and retirement systems, intergenerational relationships within families, and labor market supply.
(November 2009) Every year, thousands of workers are injured or die on the job from preventable accidents in the United States. Immigrants, especially Hispanics, are disproportionately exposed to dangerous jobs.
(November 2009) Despite the extensive research done on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, there have been relatively few studies on the impact of HIV/AIDS on older persons in developing countries.
(2009) Timely economic data provide the means to assess the severity of the current economic hardship on the U.S.
In 2008, the United Nations announced that 50 percent of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, a milestone in demographic history.
(2009) Between 2007 and 2008, U.S. household income fell sharply as the unemployment rate increased.