SEPT. 22, 2022 – The U.S. Census Bureau today released a new report examining the domestic migration patterns of adults age 65 and up in the United States. The report, Domestic Migration of Older Americans: 2015-2019, compares the general mobility of people…
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First Quarterly Workforce Indicators for Puerto Rico Provide Demographic Portrait of Island’s Employment Trends
The youngest and oldest workers drove Puerto Rico’s employment recovery after Hurricane Maria devastated the island five years ago. Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released the first Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for Puerto Rico, providing rich demographic profiles of the island’s…
More Americans Support National Right to Abortion
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham last week introduced legislation that would put a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The proposed law wouldn’t stop states from having stricter restrictions, but would stop states that allow abortions…
Pandemic Made Half of Americans Reset Priorities
Artemis Strategy Group conducted a study completed in August 2022 focused on the lasting impact of the Sars-COV-2 pandemic. They found that 51% of Americans said that the forced pause the COVID-19 pandemic created the reset they needed to do…
Americans Back Ukraine
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine nears its eighth month, a clear majority of Americans would rather the United States back Ukraine in gaining back it’s territory from Russia-even if that means prolonging a war rather than ceding to Russia.…
Older Americans sad over passing of Queen Elizabeth II, sad over her passing at 96
The news that Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch, passed away at her Balmoral Estate in the Scottish Highlands at the age of 96 made an impact on older Americans. 18% say they’ve shed tears over her passing, 22%…
Written by: Kalee Burns, Liana Fox and Danielle Wilson Child poverty, calculated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), fell to its lowest recorded level in 2021, declining 46% from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021, according to U.S. Census…
Full-Time, Year-Round Workers More Likely to be Uninsured in 2021
Written by: Katherine Keisler-Starkey, Laryssa Mykyta and Lisa Bunch The uninsured rate of full-time, year-round workers rose 0.6 percentage points in 2021 as more worked in occupations such as food service and construction that are less likely to provide private…
Pandemic Disrupted Labor Markets but Had Modest Impact on Retirement Timing
The COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of labor markets was massive, but it had only a modest impact on peoples’ retirement timing, according to recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The SIPP collected…
Home is Where the Heart Is
“Who says you can’t go home/who says you can’t go back/I been all around the world and as a matter of fact/there’s only one place left I want to go/who says you can’t go home…” sang Bon Jovi in the…