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Demography

It's Jobs, Stupid!

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 01.14.2013 | World
Read More: Poverty, Nepal, Ghana, Jobs, Colombia, Bangladesh, Income, Paraguay, Labor, Education, Investment, Demography, Honduras, Moldova, Productivity, Global Poverty Rates, Poverty Rates, Global Poverty, World News
Otaviano Canuto

The World Bank has been tracking the world progress against poverty since the late '80s, but the release of 2008 data was the first time in which all regions of the developing world showed a decline in the number of people living below poverty lines!

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WATCH: The Happiest Person In America

The Huffington Post | Maxwell Strachan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Well Being Index, Alvin Wong, New York Times, Asian American, Hawaii, Catherine Rampbell, Gallup, Jewish, Demography, Happiest Man in the World, Video, Business News

Last week, Gallup published its annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, leading The New York Times on a search to find the person who fit the exact...

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Do Fathers REALLY Have Less Contact With Their Kids After Divorce?

Robert Hughes, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce
Read More: Valerie King, Jacob Cheadle, Divorce News, Nonresidential Fathers, Fathers, Demography, Paul Amato, Divorce News
Robert Hughes, Jr.

The general assumption about fathers following divorce is that they gradually have less and less contact with their children. Everyone seems to know ...

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Ignore the Teen Employment Problem at Your Peril

Andrew Sum | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Teen Employment, National Report, Unemployment, E/P Ratio, Low Income Minorities, Demography, Employability, White, Nonhispanics, Teenagers, Business News
Andrew Sum

The deep deterioration in teen employment over the past decade will have severe adverse consequences for them (and the rest of the nation) in the future. We ignore this problem at our peril.

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Creating care vacuums as nursing homes close

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Poverty, Cohabitation, Ethnicity, Demography, Multigenerational, Race, Health Care, Recession, Family, Home News
Philip N. Cohen

Which came first, the closed nursing home or the doubled-up household? The recession-driven spikes in multigenerational households and cohabiting cou...

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Could Demographic Trends Cripple Europe by 2050?

Rory Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Hsbc, Demography Is Destiny, Britain, Germany, Demography, Total Fertility Rate, Birth Rates, Italy, The World in 2050, Europe, Eu, World News
Rory Fitzgerald

New figures bear out a looming demographic crisis in Europe. Not since the Black Death have we seen populations collapse like this.

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Black Men's Marriages

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Marriage, Black Men, African Americans, Demography, Healthy Living News
Philip N. Cohen

An in-depth look at how some Black men see their marriages. Research on marriage trends, and the reasons behind them, tends to focus on the decline i...

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Vanishing Middle Class Jobs

Martin Ford | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Jobs, Unemployment, Technology, Business, Third World America, Economy, Middle Class, New Economy, Demography, Bureau of Labor, Lower Classes, Recession, Business News
Martin Ford

Economists acknowledge that middle skill jobs are vaporizing. But they also view the situation as static. Not true. Eventually, we'll have to find ways other than job-based income to support the population.

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Married, More and Less: Marriage Age At All-Time High

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Black Women, Census, New York Times, Marriage, Census Bureau, Race, Sociology, Demography, Healthy Living News
Philip N. Cohen

We complete the lines for another decade. It's that time again, when the Census Bureau announces the release of data on family and marriage from the ...

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8 Populations, 4 Methods

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Budget, Design, Bio-Mimicy, Democracy, Ecological Economics, Policy, China, Wild Cards, Brazil, Iran, Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Indonesia, Venezuela, Demography, Russia, India, True Cost, Virtual Cabient, Politics News
Robert David Steele

Minister-Mentor Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore has said that demography, not democracy, is the defining element of the future, and I agree with him. This ...

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Choice Interpretation on Marriage Trends

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Marriage, Media, 1950s, Family, Demography, Healthy Living News
Philip N. Cohen

On the one hand, on the other hand. I make graphs to help me understand trends and patterns, not just to present what I've already decided is the sto...

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What's Wrong with America? Let Me List the Books....

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Betrayal of the Public Trust, Corruption, Financial Crime, Empire, Abuse, Corporation, Economy, Class War, Middle Class, Federal Reserve, Theocracy, Legal, Disinformation, Ideology, Culture, Research & Development, Deceit, Intelligence, Values, Disease, Climate Change, Black Intellectuals, Atrocities, Communications, War as a Racket, Political, Technology, Family, Blue Collar, Computing, Poverty, Treason, Dissent, Evil, Dereliction of Duty, White-Collar Crime, Socio-Economic, Religion, Environmental Degradation, Education, Anger, Geography, Peak Oil, Water, Nature, Demography, Anthropology, Books News
Robert David Steele

Sun Tzu writes that if you do not know your enemy, AND you do not know yourself, you are destined to fail. The United States of America is not a Repu...

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Marriage and divorce disparities on the rise

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Black Women, Marriage, Divorce, Recession, Demography, Healthy Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Pairing up and paring down, by race/ethnicity and class. Social scientists have been talking about a "retreat from marriage" for at least 20 years. ...

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Gay and Lesbian Parents Making the Grade

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Census, Marriage, Education, Homogamy, Parenting, Gay Marriage, Demography, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

The Florida appeals court that threw out that state's ban on gay parent adoptions yesterday didn't need this study to rule against the junk science ...

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For Whom It Just Happens

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Marriage, Education, Parenting, Children, Inequality, Pew Research Center, Demography, Healthy Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Why do people have children? The new Pew report is a good summary of trends in the demography of mothers, as well as attitudes related to birth decis...

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Black Children and Adults Face Family Barriers

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Marriage, Black Families, Children, Demography, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Deportation, New York, Prison Population, Black-Children-and-Learning, Life Chances, Black Fathers, Life Challenges, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

A measure of the society's meritocracy is the extent to which advantage and disadvantage are passed from parents to children.

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