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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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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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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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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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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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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