(2012) Working mothers with a bachelor's degree have gained increasing access to paid leave in recent decades, while women without high school degrees have seen no change, reported Nancy Folbre, a University of Massachusetts economist.
The aging of the baby boom generation could fuel a 75 percent increase in the number of Americans ages 65 and older requiring nursing home care, to about 2.3 million in 2030 from 1.3 million in 2010, the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) projects in a new report.
(2010) U.S.-born Latinos and foreign-born Latinos face widely different social and economic experiences in the United States.
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.
(2010) Women of childbearing age in El Salvador are having fewer children and using more family planning, with a recent increase in the use of injectable contraceptives.
“Girls, women, families, society, and the economy all pay a price for the gaps in knowledge about women’s health,” a new report says.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
The world population will reach 9.9 billion in 2050, up 33 percent from an estimated 7.4 billion now, according to projections included in the 2016 World Population Data Sheet from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).
