Rural America Is Aging—Without Enough Care Workers
Faced with a deficit of nursing assistants and home health aides, rural areas lack the workforce they need for people to age in place, new research finds.
Faced with a deficit of nursing assistants and home health aides, rural areas lack the workforce they need for people to age in place, new research finds.
(2011) Près de 68 pour cent des personnes infectées par le VIH dans le monde vivent en Afrique subsaharienne, où le virus touche les femmes de manière disproportionnée.
(2010) Peruvian women are having fewer children and waiting longer between pregnancies, many by using traditional family planning methods.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
88.5% of Appalachian adults (ages 25-64) have earned a high school diploma, similar to the U.S. average of 88.6%.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
82.2% of Appalachian households have access to a computer device. The U.S. average of 87.2%.
(2002) In a move that marks the Caribbean's success in various spheres of socioeconomic activity, international funding agencies are reducing their financial support for the region's sexual and reproductive health programs.
(2010) This has been a tumultuous decade for the United States. During the first 10 years of the 21st Century, there was a major terrorist attack, a housing meltdown, a severe economic recession, and a significant downturn in the U.S. stock market.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2014) The U.S. population is undergoing significant racial/ethnic change, with rapidly growing Latino, Asian American, and multiracial populations.
(2007) We entered the 20th century with a population of 1.6 billion people. We entered the 21st century with 6.1 billion people. And in 2007, world population is 6.6 billion.
(2009) Although child poverty conjures up an urban image for most Americans, one-fifth of children in poverty live in rural areas. Poverty rates are higher for rural than for urban children, and the gap has increased in recent years.