Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
The Backdrop: Rising Inequality in the U.S.
(2014) Countries around the world are paying more attention to inequality as an indicator of social and economic well-being.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2014) Countries around the world are paying more attention to inequality as an indicator of social and economic well-being.
(2014) Changes in racial/ethnic composition, immigration, family composition, and age structure are linked to rising income inequality but they are not the primary or root causes.
PRB is a partner on the PROPEL Health project, which is working to support more equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy, financing, governance, and advocacy.
(2014) Countries around the world are paying more attention to inequality as an indicator of social and economic well-being.
(2012) Growing numbers of children in the United States are living with a grandparent. In 2010, about one in 14 U.S. children (7 percent) lived in a household headed by a grandparent—for a total of 5.4 million children, up from 4.7 million in 2005.1
Race plays an important role in how college affects women’s marriage, fertility, and employment.
(2007) How are environmental, poverty, and security trends in today's world affected by population dynamics? What is being done to address these issues? What is needed?
(2019) More than 300 million people live in the United States and getting an accurate count of each and every one of them is no easy feat. As the U.S. population has grown—from just under 4 million in 1790 to more than 329 million in 2019—the Census Bureau’s enumeration methods (how they count people) have evolved to adapt to new technologies, increase efficiency and accuracy, and help to control rising costs.