September 13, 2021 | Articles
The recent slowdown in the U.S. birth rate has resulted in much hand-wringing about our nation’s future. Instead of yielding to these dark prognostications, let’s take advantage of this situation, which could be more optimistically viewed as an opportunity. There are some clear advantages to the decline in U.S. births—which…...
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September 13, 2021 | Articles
There’s been a recent spate of hand-wringing articles in response to the release of the 2020 U.S. Census results and the publication shortly thereafter of the 2020 provisional births data from the CDC. Yes, the U.S. population grew at the slowest rate during the last decade since the 1930s, and…...
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September 13, 2021 | Articles
Originally published by Business Insider on May 23, 2021 Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dropped a new report that revealed the U.S. birth rate fell by 4 percent, the sharpest single-year decline in nearly 50 years and the lowest number of births since 1979.…...
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September 13, 2021 | Articles
For the nearly five decades since the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion, that right has been under attack by state legislators. But the High Court has stood by its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade over and over again in the…...
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September 3, 2021 | Articles
It’s summer in Washington, DC, which means the appropriations process is underway, though, as always, there will be a lull in the proceedings as Congress leaves town for its August recess. Given the progress in the House of Representatives so far, however, the future looks bright for international family planning…...
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September 3, 2021 | Articles
Our volunteers and activists have been working hard to #Fight4HER all summer. The fight to ensure reproductive health and rights for everyone, everywhere, is as crucial as ever, especially now that we have a supportive White House and majority in Congress. The Biden-Harris administration marks a distinct shift in the…...
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September 3, 2021 | Articles
New Study Warns Global Warming Could Kill 83 Million People by Century’s End A new study from researchers at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, published in the journal Nature Communications, calculates the so-called “mortality cost” of carbon emissions. It concludes that by the year 2100, carbon emissions could result in “excess…...
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September 3, 2021 | Articles
Elon Musk took a moment away from his astronautical machinations to deliver a finger-wagging Twitter warning for humanity: “Population collapse is potentially the greatest risk to the future of civilization.” Just how the annual global population increase of some 80 million people on our planet translates into a collapse seems…...
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September 3, 2021 | Articles
PopEd’s volunteer trainers are the backbone of our program. They are K-12 teachers, pre-service professors, non-formal educators, and education administrators who are passionate about population issues and share PopEd resources with educators in their communities. When our workshops transitioned online in March 2020 due to the pandemic, we weren’t sure…...
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September 3, 2021 | Articles
I just finished reading the June 2021 issue of Population Connection and want to report on my bipolar experience reading it. First, I read the shattering report on life in the Sahel with overpopulation, climate change, abuse of women, lack of women’s rights, and starvation and was just in a…...
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