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Small Towns/Big Changes: The Shifting Demographics of Rural America
Update: See our recap of this event and videos of presentations here. Trends shaping rural life in America include unprecedented population declines, a growing Hispanic population, a disproportionate share of military veterans, and a sharp increase in “deaths of despair”—related to suicide, alcohol abuse, and drug overdose—among rural residents with low education levels. At “Small...
Dating Violence and Safety on College Campuses: Using Technology to Change the Climate
Update: See our recap of this event here. Presenters included: Michele Decker, associate professor, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and co-chair of the university’s Sexual Violence Advisory Committee (slides: PDF). Nancy Glass, professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and associate director of the university’s Center...
Extreme Poverty and Health in the United States
Update: See the video from the webinar >> Studies show that a growing number of U.S. families have incomes so low that the difficulties of their living situations may be masked by thinking of the poor as a homogeneous group. For instance, since the mid-1990s the number of families living on less than $2.00 in...