December 11, 2023 | Articles
Nasaruni Academy for Maasai Girls Population Connection supports Nasaruni Academy in Kenya, helping to provide educational scholarships for students and job training for local women. We know that having an education helps girls and women live empowered lives, which enables them to have smaller families and better provide for each…...
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Population projections and the assumptions demographers make in order to formulate them take center stage in this issue. Dr. Jane O’Sullivan, a researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia, generously participated in a lengthy interview with me about a paper she wrote critiquing the population projections the leading demography…...
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Projections of slower U.S. population growth and an aging society provoke needless dire warnings. A recent New York Times article, “America’s Semiconductor Boom Faces a Challenge: Not Enough Workers,” cited a looming shortfall of nearly 400,000 engineers and skilled technicians. One side effect of recent worker shortages has been higher…...
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A Year of Global Partners Population Connection is proud to partner with a growing number of small, community-based organizations working to increase access to public health and family planning services, remove barriers to girls’ education, and conserve wildlife and its habitats. These small nonprofits offer programs and services to their…...
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Breaking planetary boundaries Two recent studies provide renewed warnings that the risk of triggering catastrophic tipping points is rapidly increasing due to humanity’s failure to shrink our collective environmental footprint. The first paper, published in the journal Science Advances, is an update of the planetary boundaries framework developed in 2009…...
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The ZPG Society is our recognition group for members who have made a gift in their will or trust, established a charitable gift annuity, or designated Population Connection as a beneficiary of their retirement fund or other financial account. Membership Relations Coordinator Stephanie Wolfe spoke with ZPG Society member Dorothy…...
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Los Angeles Times The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice decision decriminalizing abortion last week is a landmark ruling in a country that has historically outlawed the procedure with harsh penalties for the women who sought it and the health care professionals who provided it. … Yet, as Mexico and other…...
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Right wing extremists continue to do their best to ensure that people in this country, and around the world, are denied access to reproductive health care. In 2022, the Supreme Court stripped Americans of their constitutional right to legal and safe abortion, when it overturned Roe v. Wade. This past…...
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Culture Wars, Crises, and Chaos: The U.S. House Melts Down House Republicans have been using the Appropriations process—the annual moving of bills to fund all government programs and agencies—to promote their extreme ideological agenda. For example, on September 28, the House passed the 2024 State Department and Foreign Operations spending…...
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New Interactive Poster Kits Just Released This fall, PopEd published two new resources to grace classroom walls. Our updated World Population Map depicts countries by their population size, rather than by their land area. This new cartogram represents the global population at 8 billion, using the latest data from the…...
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