The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse | Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

"Each year, Fernández-Villaverde updates his data on Latin American birth rates, which he gathers from the countries’ official birth statistics, in preparation for a class he teaches about the region’s economic history. He first began noticing in 2019 that the UN was too optimistic, but only in the past few years did the discrepancies become downright alarming." -The Atlantic

Can Social Media Be Less Toxic? | Watts

 "Annenberg professor and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Duncan Watts and coauthors, outlines a research plan to help scholars, policymakers, and corporate leaders identify factors that shape prosocial behavior on social media." -Penn Today

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.