Why Are They Asking That? What Everyone Needs to Know About 2020 Census Questions
By law, the U.S. government is required to count the number of people living in the United States every 10 years.
By law, the U.S. government is required to count the number of people living in the United States every 10 years.
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.
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In the United States, women from disadvantaged groups faced more barriers to contraceptive care during COVID.
(2009) One in every 10 children in the United States had no health insurance in 2007, and the cost of insurance to families and employers is rising, according to a new report by the Institute of Medicine. America's Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care is an independent assessment of published studies and surveys and provides new research on how lack of coverage affects U.S. children and families.
(2006) The United States is set to reach a milestone in October. Joining China and India, it will become the third country to be home to at least 300 million people.
(August 2006) The chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, have come under increased pressure from four decades of high human population growth in the region and an associated increase in human activity and disease.
(2006) Adolescent U.S. girls are being arrested in record numbers. And every year brings new media attention to mean or aggressive girls' behavior—with sensational newspaper headlines and book titles such as See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It and Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence.1 Could there be an epidemic of violence in the United States among girls—who have traditionally been considered more mature and less trouble to raise than boys?
(2007) With continuing political turmoil, emergency rule declared, and concerns about how free and fair January elections will be, Pakistan has been under the spotlight recently. But the political arena isn't the only area where challenges persist.