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September 20, 2021 | Articles

First of all, let me say that I very much appreciated your review of Matthew Yglesias’ book One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. You appropriately and accurately point out and underscore the absurdity of the thesis. However, I believe you could have and should have found fault with…...

September 13, 2021 | Articles

One of my first summer jobs as a teenager involved demolishing an outhouse in the fishing town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The still-functional structure was a relic of a bygone era. Nostalgia has its purposes, but I doubt anyone missed those treks across the yard to do what’s necessary. When indoor…...

September 13, 2021 | Articles

Originally published by The New York Times on June 27, 2021 Krystal Glass stretches while joined by her baby, Jaron, at Vancouver Wellness Studio in Vancouver, Washington (Amanda Cowan, The Columbian, via AP Images) American women are having fewer children and having them later than ever before—a demographic shift being…...

September 13, 2021 | Articles

Hundreds of Population Connection members and supporters joined in a very full slate of virtual events throughout the summer, taking advantage of numerous opportunities to learn, discuss population issues, and network with each other! Our Summer Series featured monthly speaking engagements with experts, our third “Page Turners” book club meeting,…...

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…...

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…...

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.…...

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…...

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…...

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…...