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Resource Library

Good decisions require good data and information. Search the Resource Library for data and policy products on population, health, and environment issues. Browse collections, explore policy briefs, watch videos, and put the data in context.

Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

Webinar: How State Contexts Impact Population Health

In this webinar, two distinguished researchers discussed how U.S. state policies and systems can affect racial and regional inequities in health and longevity.

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Local Immigration Enforcement Was Supposed to Make Communities Safer—It Made Them More Violent Instead

Partnerships with ICE only increase residents’ risk for violent victimization, especially among Latinos.

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Today’s Research on Aging 44: More Than a Feeling: How Social Connection Protects Health in Later Life

Older adults’ social ties are more important for physical and mental health than previously thought, new research shows.

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2024 World Population Data Sheet Media Brief

This media brief shows journalists how population data can be used to report stories about primary health care, which touches every part of our society.

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2023 World Population Data Sheet Media Briefs

These two media briefs provide journalists with tools to report stories on climate change using population data to understand who it affects and how their lives are changing.

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States With Abortion Bans Continue to Rank Among Worst for Child Well-Being

In addition, the number of abortions in the United States increased by 11% from 2020 to 2023, despite more state restrictions

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Five Generations at Work: A PRB Book Talk Q&A With Author Patrick Dunne

In the book Five Generations at Work: How We Win Together, for Good, authors Patrick Dunne and Rebecca Robins describe how we’re living in a time of unprecedented demographic change, where five generations work alongside each other in an ideologically and politically fractured environment.

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Project: Counting Women’s Work

Guide de Dialogue Politique Pour le Travail Domestique Non Rémunéré

Une stratégie de communication politique solide est un élément important du processus de changement politique réussi pour la prise en compte du travail domestique non rémunéré dans les politiques publiques et macro-économiques.

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Who Cares for the Caregivers?

Policy changes could reduce the disproportionate burden of care work on American women, researchers said.

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