March 15, 2021 | Articles
Our Membership Relations team is rolling into 2021 with a whole slate of virtual events planned to help our members learn more about population issues, connect with one another, and stay engaged with Population Connection. For our first event of the year, we screened Terry Spahr’s new documentary film, 8…...
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March 15, 2021 | Articles
Originally published by The Lily, a product of The Washington Post, on January 19, 2021 Biden vowed to repeal the Global Gag Rule, but Trump’s “anti-woman rhetoric” isn’t necessarily going away. In 2019, Melvine Ouyo, a health policy expert and reproductive rights activist, attended a conference in her city of…...
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March 15, 2021 | Articles
Originally published by CNN on January 30, 2021 For more than four years, countries that rely on American foreign aid have been reeling from the profound impact that Donald Trump’s reinstatement of the Mexico City policy has had on women. The policy, known as the “Global Gag Rule” among opponents,…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Periodically, our staff share snippets of their experiences traveling around the U.S. and Canada, facilitating PopEd workshops for current and future teachers. This fall, rather than meeting with educators in person, we’ve had to do it virtually through Zoom and other platforms. With our commitment to provide engaging experiences, even…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Rep. Joyce Beatty, #Fight4HER staff, and fellows at the East Coast Summer of HER Summit Summer of HER Summits Against the backdrop of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and a national reckoning on race, our virtual Summer of HER program chugged on successfully throughout the summer with our organizers and fellows…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
After four years of fury and frustration at the Trump administration’s attacks on reproductive rights and family planning, advocates have cause to be optimistic in the aftermath of the election. Former Vice President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to become the 46th President of the United States. Biden has pledged…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Tripling the American Population to Compete With China Is Not Thinking Bigger, It’s Thinking Dumber. What a simpler world this would be if old school economics were our only concern—if we didn’t need to worry about natural resource availability or the earth’s capacity to absorb our various forms of waste.…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Originally published by PBS on September 14, 2020 The devastating wildfires tearing across California, Oregon, Washington, and several other Western states are an increasingly familiar scene, as blazes have become larger and more destructive over the past several decades. Seven of the top 10 most destructive fires in California’s history…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Originally published by WIRED on September 14, 2020 Climate change is making wildfires bigger, fiercer, and deadlier, fueling a new kind of despair on the West Coast—and beyond. Grief has settled over the western U.S., along with the thick haze of smoke pouring from dozens of massive wildfires up and…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Researchers at the University of Washington Publish New Population Projections The Lancet published new population projections by researchers at the University of Washington in July, and they are quite a departure from the United Nations projections. According to these new projections, the global population will peak in 2064 at 9.73…...
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