March 11, 2024 | Articles
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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Recent and Upcoming Opportunities to Engage We have a full slate of virtual events planned for 2024 — we hope you’ll make this the year you start joining us if you haven’t already! We’ll be hosting more of our Global Partners and learning how the generosity of Population Connection members…...
Read MoreDecember 11, 2023 | Articles
I just got my fall issue of Population Connection magazine. On the cover, I’m offered the news that an aging population is a challenge, not a disaster after all, and I’m presented with the image of some bright, happy, aging people moving through a lush green landscape. We all want…...
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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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