March 11, 2024 | Articles
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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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…...
Read MoreDecember 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…...
Read MoreDecember 11, 2023 | Articles
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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