Population Studies Center: In the News
Growing number of Americans experiencing homelessness. Health workers worry about the "most vulnerable." | Dennis Culhane
"They end up hospitalized at very high rates. They often can't be discharged in a timely fashion because they have no place to go back to and no family to support them. So they often will end up in nursing homes, even though in those nursing homes they will often get discharged right back into homelessness." -- CBS News
Dennis Culhane comments on homelessness among seniors in a recent CBS News article.
A Bold Idea to Raise the Birthrate: Make Parenting Less Torturous | Corinne Low
“What is it that is making this hard for women right now?” as Corinne Low, a Wharton School expert on economics, public policy and gender, said in conversation with me recently, “And how do we solve those things?” -- New York Times
Corinne Low provides insight on challenges to raising the U.S. birthrate.
Disease, Fertility, and Inequity | Letícia Marteleto
"For the past five years, Letícia Marteleto, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Sociology, has studied the effects of Zika and COVID on women in Brazil. So far, she’s found that the back-to-back crises have significantly affected family-planning decisions—and there’s much more to learn." -- OMNIA
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