31,780 Reasons to Care About Gun Violence
In 2020, for the first time in decades, more children ages 17 and younger died from guns than from motor vehicle crashes.
In 2020, for the first time in decades, more children ages 17 and younger died from guns than from motor vehicle crashes.
(2011) Exactly 50 years ago, geographer Jean Gottmann coined the term "megalopolis" to describe the sprawling regional mega-city taking shape between Boston and Washington, D.C., gobbling up rural areas in its wake.
“The employers who think more creatively about policies are the ones who are going to come out ahead in the next couple of decades,” Elliott said.
(2013) Twelve women journalists from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe talked with one another about the status of women in their cultures. The Africans said women in their countries have many babies, often too many to care for adequately.
The Population Reference Bureau's 2010 World Population Data Sheet focuses on a rapidly aging world, highlighting many countries' pressures to care for their elderly citizens.
(2006) On February 17, a devastating landslide killed an estimated 1,800 Filipinos in Guinsaugon on the southern part of Leyte Island in eastern Philippines.