(2008) Media reports on the "exploding" middle class in India would lead any reader to believe that Indian society is undergoing a top-to-bottom transformation into a society of Western-style consumers. A recent Business Week article quoted a McKinsey Global Institute study that claimed that India, in one generation, would become a nation of upwardly mobile middle-class households, consuming goods ranging from high-end cars to designer clothing.
(2015) Three presentations about increased childbearing outside marriage, more parents with children from more than one partner, and a shrinking share of married people in the U.S. population have brought new complexity to U.S. family life, and risks for the health and well-being of children and parents.
(2013) The chronic stress of living in poverty, loneliness of social isolation, and fear endemic in some high-crime neighborhoods can alter gene activity and contribute to disease, according to Steve Cole, professor of medicine and behavioral sciences at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
A temporary expansion of the child tax credit helped fuel a dramatic drop in child poverty in 2021.
(2010) Most poor children achieve less, exhibit more problem behaviors, and are less healthy than children raised in more-affluent families. Looking beyond these well-known correlations between poverty and negative outcomes in childhood, recent studies have assessed the effects of childhood poverty in the United States on later attainment and health.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(juin 2014) Selon les estimations, de 100 millions à 140 millions de jeunes filles et de femmes dans le monde ont subi une mutilation génitale féminine ou une excision (MGF/E), et plus de 3 millions de filles courent le risque d’être excises chaque année sur le seul continent africain.
World population grew to 7.06 billion in mid-2012 after having passed the 7 billion mark in 2011.
(2010) This has been a tumultuous decade for the United States. During the first 10 years of the 21st Century, there was a major terrorist attack, a housing meltdown, a severe economic recession, and a significant downturn in the U.S. stock market.
(2001) Immigration since World War II has transformed Australian society and population. Many residents of Australia are immigrants or are the children of immigrants.