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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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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Resignations, Redistricting, a Rule, and Roe The incredible shrinking majority The already razor thin majority Republicans held in the House shrunk even more with the expulsion of George Santos (R-NY) and the resignation of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Another Republican, Bill Johnson (R-OH) has announced that he will resign…...
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Interview with Isabella Cortes Lara, CEO of Women for Conservation Can you tell our readers the story behind your organization’s founding? Women for Conservation (W4C) was created by my mother, Sara Inés Lara, and me, with the vision of empowering women to become conservation leaders in their own communities. As…...
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COP28 climate agreement a mixed bag COP28, 2023’s most important international climate change meeting, wrapped up in mid-December. Nations agreed for the first time to “transition away from fossil fuels,” which was seen by many as a significant victory. However, the agreement is nowhere near ambitious enough to limit global…...
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Long-time Population Connection members Norton and Irene Starr have been supporting the organization at the President’s Circle level since 2005. Norton first became aware of Population Connection over 20 years ago, when he saw President and CEO John Seager give a talk at Amherst College, where Norton taught for 43…...
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Measuring PopEd’s Impact: Results From Our Biennial Evaluation Now in its 50th year, the PopEd program continues to build relationships with new and veteran teachers across the U.S. and Canada through workshops and webinars led by our staff and members of our Teacher Training Network. Last summer, we surveyed participants…...
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March 11, 2024 | Articles
These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work. Taiwan has spent more than $3 billion trying to get its citizens to have more children. In 2009, after decades of falling birth rates, it began offering six months of…...
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Imagine not wanting children but being effectively persuaded to have them because your government is offering a one-time cash payment of a few hundred dollars … when it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to raise kids to adulthood in the advanced economies where fertility is very low and where…...
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Today’s human population of 8 billion is far beyond Earth’s carrying capacity, even as per person consumption rates and population numbers continue rising. Contraception should be available for free to all women in America and ultimately around the world. If every woman could decide when and whether to become pregnant,…...
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