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Rural Migrant Remittances May Protect Forests

(February 2012) Sprawling urban areas most obviously demonstrate the environmental impact of migration. Water scarcity, pollution, and lack of adequate housing are some of the more evident impacts of urban population growth.

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PRB Discuss Online: What Is Your ‘Race’? A Question Increasingly Difficult to Answer

(2010) The concept of "race" has always been controversial, given ugly associations with slavery, the eugenics movement, and racism.

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2020 Census Self-Response Rates Are Lagging in Neighborhoods at Risk of Undercounting Young Children

Self-response rates are lowest in neighborhoods with high concentrations of racial and ethnic minorities in the young child population, which could mean fewer dollars for communities that need funds the most.

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Why Is the U.S. Census So Important?

The 2020 Census count began in January, kicking off a once-a-decade operation in which every household in the United States will be asked to answer a short series of questions that will influence policymaking and planning for the next decade.

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Asian Americans: Diverse and Growing

Population Bulletin 53, No. 2 (1998)

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International Migration Transforms Australia

(2001) Immigration since World War II has transformed Australian society and population. Many residents of Australia are immigrants or are the children of immigrants.

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Report. Kenya’s Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development Policy: Implementation Progress and Barriers

(2013) Developed in 2003, the Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development (ARHD) Policy was the first in Kenya to focus on improving the reproductive health and well-being of adolescents and youth.1 Ten years since the policy was developed, Kenya has experienced much advancement and change in the social, economic, and political environment for ARHD.

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