Income Inequality Rises Across the United States

The Gini Index, which measures inequality across households, registered its first significant year-to-year increase since 1993, according to data released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Since 1967, household inequality has increased by 20 percent.

This PopPov network research brief highlights findings from two recent studies led by Joseph Babigumira and researchers at the University of Washington and in Uganda.

This PopPov network research brief summarizes the work of researchers Christopher McKelvey, Duncan Thomas, and Elizabeth Frankenberg, in examining the impact of a drastic change in prices and household resources on women's use of contraceptives.

This PopPov network research brief summarizes findings from one study that qualitatively examines how some women in Burkina Faso fared after such "near miss" life-threatening experiences while giving birth.

More than 10 percent of U.S. children lived in a high-poverty neighborhood (poverty rates of 30 percent or more) between 2006 and 2010, reflecting a 25 percent increase since 2000, according to a new PRB analysis funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

RB s ENGAGE presentation, "Family Planning: Pathway to Poverty Reduction," seeks to improve individuals' understanding of how family planning contributes to economic growth and poverty reduction at the family, community, and national levels, and to reposition family planning higher on national an…

The number of homeless veterans in the United States has declined by 11 percent since 2009, from 75,600 in 2009 to 67,500 in 2011. However, the total homeless population only decreased by 1 percent during the same period, from 643,000 to 636,000, according to the January 2012 report on the state of …

This PopPov Research Network brief examines the emerging evidence base for answering questions about the relationship between reproductive health and important areas of human capital development.

"Malawi: Investing in Our Future Now" was created by PRB in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic and Development Planning, the Ministry of Health, and a task force comprised of population specialists, reproductive health experts, academics, and advocates.

This working paper presents key findings of a recent study conducted by the Alexandria Regional Centre for Women's Health and Development in Egypt, highlighting gaps between female adolescents' needs for appropriate RH information and what they actually have access to, as expressed by the girls.

India is a country with some of the trappings of modernity combined with living conditions in 247 million households that look more medieval. The Registrar General of India has released statistics on the level of living in India from the 2011 Census and the results are quite revealing.

In 218 of 420 Appalachian counties, the share of working-age adults (ages 25 to 64) with at least a bachelor's degree failed to reach more than half the national average of 30 percent, according to The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview From the 2006-2010 American Community Survey, an Appala…