View webcast of symposium (Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes) Today, Americans are more likely to marry and to divorce than in almost any other Western nation. Serial marriages, rising levels of cohabitation, delayed childbearing, and nonmarital parenthood have added complexity to American families. At the same time, increases in women’s attachment to the labor force…
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There are more than 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States, and they are one of the most rapidly growing segments of the U.S. population. Most are U.S. citizens who were born in the United States to foreign-born parents. They face complex cultural and social challenges, navigating between their parents’ backgrounds and…
Read MoreImmigration in the United States is a debated and much-researched topic. What are the social and economic effects of immigration on the United States? On the one hand, immigration leads to displacement of jobs. On the other hand, immigrants create economic demand and growth. In this video, PRB president Bill Butz talks with Charles Hirschman,…
Read MoreWith Millennium Development Goal 6, the international community pledged to “combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases” throughout the world. Worldwide, 1.4 billion people are infected with one or more of these less-known “other diseases.” They come from the poorest of the poor who live on $1.25 or less per day, mostly on farms and in urban slums…
Read MoreIn the late 1990s and early 2000s, the global AIDS epidemic overwhelmed health care systems, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The epidemic appeared unstoppable as infection and prevalence rates continued to increase dramatically. However, data now show that since its peak in the late 1990s, new HIV infection rates and prevalence have begun stabilizing in much…
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