Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
(2020) The coronavirus pandemic—coupled with ongoing demographic trends—is making family life even more complicated for Americans. Millions of families are at increased risk of falling into poverty due to pandemic-related job losses, and social distancing protocols are separating some children from their parents who live in a different household.
Project: Working Poor Families Project
In 2013, U.S. working families headed by racial/ethnic minorities were twice as likely to be poor or low-income (47 percent) compared with non-Hispanic whites (23 percent) according to a new report from the Working Poor Families Project in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).
(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.
September 2008) More than 80 million people were added to the world's population in 2008, which ensures continued growth in coming decades.
(October 2001) For the first time, more half of the world's population will be living in urban areas by the end of this decade.
(2009) Each year, an estimated 9 million infants are born with a serious birth defect that may kill them or result in a lifelong disability. Such birth defects have an especially severe effect on children in developing countries.
(2009) "The World in 2050: A Scientific Investigation of the Impact of Global Population Changes on a Divided Planet" was held in Berkeley, Calif., on Jan. 23 and 24, 2009.