(October 2004) Rising housing costs in rural America have put homeownership beyond the reach of many working-poor families. Owning a manufactured home (often also known as a "mobile home") in a rural trailer park is often touted to these families as an affordable "next best thing"—and a step toward conventional homeownership.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
(2018) As part of efforts to share cross-cutting information and increase dialogue and visibility of multisectoral approaches, PRB's PACE project has translated the revised Population, Health, and the Environment course for USAID’s Global Health e-Learning (GHeL) Center, managed by the Knowledge 4 Health project (K4Health).
This policy brief, Integrating Population, Health, and Environment in Kenya, is based on the Kenya PHE assessment coordinated by the National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development (NCAPD) and conducted by the University of Nairobi and the Kenya PHE task force between October 2006 and April 2007.
(2013) Many countries have made progress in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4: to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. Ethiopia's achievement in reducing child mortality has been remarkable, but still today, one of every 17 Ethiopian children dies before age 1.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
Environmental forces like wildfire, extreme heat, and pollution can have profound effects on our health, jobs, and decisions on where to live.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2019) The ACS conference began with some Census Bureau updates on activities and operations. Steven Dillingham, the Census Bureau Director, expressed the importance the ACS and said “data users are the key to the continuous improvement” of the flagship survey.