Project: Appalachia: Demographic and Socioeconomic Trends
Longstanding vulnerabilities suggest that some groups in Appalachia risk greater hardship related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
PRB has been a long-term partner to the U.S. Census Bureau, helping to inform policymakers, the media, and the public about the importance of data from the decennial census and American Community Survey.
(2006) As late as 25 years ago, China was concerned it had too many children to support.
(2006) Still, at least one research and policy dimension remains little explored: The relationship between HIV/AIDS and the natural environment. HIV/AIDS is shaping society's impact on the natural environment in myriad ways and at many levels.
(2002) The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a crisis of enormous proportions that is rapidly wiping out many of the gains sub-Saharan Africa has achieved since the countries attained independence.
At the fractious Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, America's founders conceived the idea of a national census to determine the number of representatives each state would send to Congress.
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) program, initiated in 2001 with funding from the Ford Foundation, responds to the region's need for timely and objective information on population, socioeconomic, and reproductive health issues.
(2004) As the 2000 election made clear, the presidential election actually is a series of 51 “winner take all” contests in each state and the District and Columbia. The candidate who wins a particular state is entitled to all of that state’s electoral votes—the equivalent of that state’s total number of senators and representatives.