(March 2011) Past research has extensively explored racial and ethnic disparities in health insurance coverage in the United States and found wide differences in the composition of the uninsured populations.
(February 2011) Since 1979, China has applied a family planning policy limiting most families to only one child as a means for controlling its high population growth.
(February 2011) The core issues of population studies are among the central concerns of our societies and those we study, and have been for a very long time.
On Feb. 3, 2011, the U.
(2011) Kakenya Ntaiya was born in a rural village in southern Kenya, one of eight children. When she was 5 years old, her parents arranged an engagement to a local boy.
(February 2011) The percentage of Americans who smoke tobacco has fallen dramatically over the past 50 years.
(2011) American families have changed dramatically in recent years. More children are living with single parents and more mothers are working.
Scientists and engineers working in the United States are increasingly likely to be foreign-born, primarily because the United States continues to attract large numbers of skilled workers from abroad.
(2011) Being a college student often means living at a subsistence-level income and suspending some big life decisions and events—like getting married and having children.
By almost any measure, Americans have become more educated over the last 40 years. They are more likely to graduate from high school, enroll in college, and obtain degrees today than they were in 1970.