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Meet Our Newer Board Members

June 10, 2024 | Articles

Over the past two years, six new members have joined the Population Connection Board of Directors. Get to know them a bit on the pages that follow! We are fortunate to have 17 experts in various fields leading Population Connection at the highest level. These accomplished professionals work in health…...

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Washington View, June 2024

June 10, 2024 | Articles

Partisan Politics Plague Congress and Courts Congress completes 2024 funding bills: new speaker faces old challenge On the last weekend in March, with the threat of a government shutdown looming, Congress finally — a full six months late — passed the last package of Fiscal Year 2024 spending bills. Included…...

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In the News, June 2024

June 10, 2024 | Articles

Vast reproductive health and rights inequalities persist UNFPA’s State of World Population 2024 report published in April showed that while significant achievements have been made over the past 30 years, major barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights remain. The landmark 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)…...

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President's Note, June 2024

June 10, 2024 | Articles

Tosher, slubber doffer, knocker upper. These may sound like smarmy slurs. Actually, they are obsolete occupations. Toshers were sewage scavengers, which is as awful as it sounds. Slubber doffers removed bobbins from looms in knitting mills. Knocker uppers made noise to awaken people in the era before alarm clocks. You…...

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Tanzania at a Crossroads

June 10, 2024 | Articles

In the search for a feature article detailing the population challenges Tanzania faces, I found none better than the one that follows from The Guardian, written to mark the 8 billion milestone on November 15, 2022. The author, Kenyan journalist Caroline Kimeu, is the Guardian’s East Africa Global Development Correspondent,…...

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Letters to the Editor, June 2024

June 10, 2024 | Articles

Population growth exacerbates every significant problem in the world. It leads to millions of people who have little and need more, which causes resentment and a desire for revenge. It creates children who starve to death after a brief view of life. It has made you and me insignificant commodity…...

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Population Education, June 2024

June 10, 2024 | Articles

On the Road with PopEd, Spring 2024 Edition From New York to Arizona, and many points in between, PopEd’s professional staff just wrapped up a busy spring on the road facilitating workshops for current and future teachers. I asked five of our team members to share some highlights of their…...

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Editorial Excerpts, March 2024

March 11, 2024 | Articles

Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court finds itself at the center of a national case involving access to abortion, this time around the drug mifepristone, which along with misoprostol forms part of the regimen for a so-called medication abortion. Its ruling is expected in June, and that ruling should be…...

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President's Note, March 2024

March 11, 2024 | Articles

My years in politics often took me to the Democratic stronghold of Levittown, Pennsylvania, with its 17,000+ homes. Built to accommodate the post-World War II baby boom, it’s often considered one of the U.S.’s first planned communities, along with its Long Island twin. But there is an asterisk. Seven centuries…...

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Field and Outreach, March 2024

March 11, 2024 | Articles

Meet Our New Field Assistant, YoVanna Solomon YoVanna Solomon returned to us in 2023 after earning a graduate degree in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida at Gainesville. She had already gotten her feet wet at Population Connection as our Advocacy and Outreach Fellow in 2021, and now…...

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