How does climate change effect natural disasters? President of the Union of Concerned Scientists Kenneth Kimmell says the fingerprints of climate change are all over the recent hurricanes and wildfires…
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Click here for more.Every once in a while something special comes along that has the power to stop us in our tracks. The “Person-Centered Matters” video about people living with dementia and those…
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More than half of the world’s population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The way we build new…
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Click here for more.After years of population loss and economic decline, Detroit now shows signs of stability and renewal. Construction and development projects are breathing new life into the city, and commercial real…
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Families experience income and expense volatility when their cash inflows and outflows fluctuate over time, often in unpredictable ways. Volatility makes saving and asset building difficult, particularly in low-income households,…
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In this episode of CaseyCast, the Population Reference Bureau’s Linda Jacobsen talks with the Foundation’s Lisa Hamilton about current demographic survey approaches, challenges and results. Their conversation covers — among…
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Click here for more.Last week, a day after The New York Times reported many years’ worth of sexual-harassment allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, another alarming report appeared, this one in Science magazine. The setting was different—Antarctic research expeditions,…
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Click here for more.The Kansas company makes data collection units for farm equipment to help farmers gather crop and field data. Farmobile’s “Farm Data Marketplace” includes legal agreements and privacy protections to let…
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Click here for more.In early October 2017, a series of wildfires started burning across the state of California, United States. They broke out throughout Napa, Lake, Sonoma, Mendocino, Butte, and Solano counties. The…
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Click here for more.Good old-fashioned American initiative often kicks in after natural disasters like hurricanes Harvey and Irma or the California wildfires, when regular citizens form their own ad-hoc disaster relief organizations alongside…
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Click here for more.Puerto Rico was badly damaged by Hurricane Maria. The storm caused billions of dollars worth of property damage. Efforts to repair and rebuild houses, roads, and telecom infrastructure are going…
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Click here for more.Researchers have found heavy-tailed distributions in many phenomena, from the frequency of words to the sizes of cities. And they’ve even been found in how people give money to charity, such as how…