State must do more to meet minority health care needs
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:00:46 -0700

Between 2000 and 2010, the Hispanic population in Health Planning Area 7 (suburban Cook and Du Page County) grew from 11.8 percent to 17.2 percent, an increase of 187944 people. During the same 2000 to 2010 period, the African-American population grew ...

Darin Von Ruden: AT&T/T-Mobile merger all hat, no cattle
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:32:34 -0700

AT&T already holds network spectrum covering 80 percent of the US population . But they claim the merger will enable them to reach 97 percent of the population . There are two things misleading about this. First, the estimated cost of expansion to 97 ...

Serbia's Population Shrinks
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:09:51 -0700

Preliminary results of the latest census by the country's statistics office have shown that, due to the country's low birth rate and continued emigration, its population may have dropped by about 200,00 to 3000 in the last ten years to some 7.4 ...

Rwanda: Youth Urged On Population Control
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:36:59 -0700

Nyagatare Youth have been urged to play a role in checking high population growth in the country. The call was made by MP Liberata Kayitesi, the Secretary General of Rwanda Network of Parliamentarians for Population and Development (RPRPD), ...

Law recounts prisoners in NY
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:01:38 -0700

The coming round of electoral redistricting in New York State following the 2010 census will be the first to take into account a state law passed that year that changes how prisoners are counted for population purposes. A group of Republican state ...

Feds: Pasco exempt from bilingual ballot requirements
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:43:31 -0700

The US Justice Department last week exempted Pasco from the jurisdictions that fall under Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act. Supervisor of Elections Brian Corley said Pasco met the population threshold for the act because more than 5 percent ...

Older, sicker inmates add to costs in Virginia jails : 2011-10-17
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:25:39 -0700

As the state's prison population grows older and sicker and with many inmates ineligible for release because of the abolition of parole in 1995 Virginia will be hard-pressed to find a way to pay for it all, corrections officials told Virginia's ...

Capital misses million plus city bus
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:14:18 -0700

Bhubaneswar: Contrary to speculations, no city in Orissa could make it to the Million Plus Cities -- cities having population of more than 10 lakh -- as per Census figures released on Monday. The Census 2011 found 53 cities in the country in the ...

7 billionth child
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:05:46 -0700

By Noeleen Heyzer At some point this month, a child will be born and the world's population will reach seven billion. There is a good chance that this childbirth will take place in the Asia-Pacific region, home to 61 percent of the world's population . ...

Gunter: Tories can't resist pandering to Quebec
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:09:53 -0700

For at least the past eight federal elections, we in Canada have paid mere lip service to the fundamental democratic concept of representation by population . The influence of voters in some provinces has grown to where a vote in PEI is worth three in ...

Increase in the Labor Force Can Be an Engine for Development
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:17:28 -0700

About two-thirds of the world's population , or 4.6 billion people in total, are of working age in 2011, the highest share in the last 60 years. The United Nations projects that the potential labor force will continue to grow through the second half of ...

US forum urges contraception aid for poor countries
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:45:00 -0700

"The global population is expected to reach the seven-billion mark this year and to hit 10 billion by 2100," noted Mary Robinson, the former Irish president and chair of the Aspen Institute's Global Leaders Council that staged the forum in Washington. ...

Is Nanaimo ready to provide for city's growing senior population ?
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:54:33 -0700

By Tamara Cunningham, Daily News October 18, 2011 Nanaimo mayor John Ruttan wants the city to capture the wave of retiring baby boomers descending on Vancouver Island, but experts question if Nanaimo is ready to meet the needs of an aging population . ...

UK's foreign student population has "more than doubled", says report
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:13:20 -0700

The UK's foreign student population has more than doubled over the last 10 years according to a new report published this week, making the higher education sector one of the most important export earners for the UK economy. ...

New Mass. districts will reflect recalibration of population
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:17:31 -0700

By Colleen Quinn Redrawn legislative districts maps that will be unveiled Tuesday afternoon will reflect population shifts chronicled over the past decade. The overall population in Massachusetts grew 3.1 percent to 6547629 during the past decade, ...

Population Approaches 7 Billion in a World of Finite Resources: An Existential ...
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:44:50 -0700

By DJ Pangburn Tuesday, October 18, 2011 If nations do not begin seriously considering science's 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, or Entropy, the human population is going to exhaust our finite resources. No degree of efficiency can save us from exponential ...

Defund the UN Population Fund
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:32:04 -0700

Fresh out of the House Foreign Relations Committee is HR 2059, a remarkably short bill that would prohibit funding of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The proposal has 83 cosponsors and quite a lot of momentum, and could save the American ...

Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:27:34 -0700

Overnight, Karachi's population of approximately 4000 doubled hence the title of Inskeep's book: "Instant City." But Inskeep, a co-host of National Public Radio's Morning Edition who has reported extensively from Pakistan, explains that there are ...

Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News
Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:36:03 -0700

The population explosion of the past generation the era when the tempo of world population growth surged and then peaked before commencing its current decline was a phenomenon widely misunderstood and misinterpreted in academic and policy ...

Grizzly Numbers Drop Slightly in Yellowstone Area
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:50:17 -0700

By matthew brown ap grizzly numbers in and around Yellowstone National Park dropped slightly this year, indicating the region's bear population could be leveling off after decades of steady growth, researchers reported Thursday. ...