CPC Fellow Fenaba Addo says "stark racial disparities in student loan debt accumulation and repayment make it clear that race and racial inequality are central to understanding the student loan debt crisis in the United States." https://t.co/U95DBConMg

CPC Director Karen Guzzo discusses the pronatalism movement on WBUR's Here and Now. "Low birth rates have been mainstreamed without being well understood and they're being used to foment a population panic." https://t.co/uKSaS5yErL

CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie will launch Lola, a personalized AI online grocery shopping technology that nudges users toward healthier choices as part of the new Kairos program at UNC’s Eshelman Innovation Institute. https://t.co/An3rITqHNt

Congratulations to CPC Fellows Cassandra Davis and Stephanie Martin on being named to the 2025 class of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars, a Carolina Center for Public Service initiative that supports and accelerates community-engaged research and teaching! https://t.co/v1rOa6fnRl

Carolina Population Center fellows Audrey Pettifor, Marissa Hall, and Ilene Speizer will serve as departmental liaisons for the International Student Departmental Liaisons program at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. https://t.co/YUzpNqGzTL

American kids' daily intake of ultraprocessed foods and sugary snacks should be more of a concern than their eating candy on a once-a-year holiday like Halloween, says CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie. https://t.co/S5wqMMOSQr

Insecticide-treated baby wraps help provide a 'bridge' for babies until they are old enough to get the malaria vaccine. "You’re protecting the kid while they’re getting to that optimal vaccine-reduced protection," says CPC Fellow Ross Boyce. https://t.co/DqRqw9pBFJ

Watch CPC Fellow Ted Mouw's UNC Research Week presentation "Using UNC's Research Data Center to Analyze Local Demographic Micro Data" https://t.co/JEgaGJ2nCH

New tool created by Carolina Demography and the N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction helps researchers group and compare school districts based on multiple indicators, rather than just using county population density. https://t.co/FeNNoLRZFP

Children who grow up in areas where wealth is more unevenly spread are less likely to move up the income ladder, says CPC Fellow Manuel Schechtl. https://t.co/tForEB0E51

BRIEF: The relationship between the current fertility rate and population decline is not straightforward, CPC Director Karen Guzzo and co-authors say. https://t.co/pqmFN8hVAT

Lack of confidence in the future—especially around the cost of living and childcare expenses—is leading many people to postpone having children, CPC Director Karen Guzzo says. https://t.co/ax0N0utydk

We are excited to announce that Nathan Dollar, Director of @ncdemography, was accepted into Class 33 of @LeadershipNC. He will work with and learn from 55 other North Carolina leaders across all sectors to tackle our state’s biggest challenges. #LNC #LNC33 https://t.co/CtfkVng3Ni

UNC launches nation’s first rural OB-GYN fellowship. “Early and regular prenatal care is critical for reducing the risks of pregnancy and birth complications,” says fellowship director and CPC Fellow Kavita Arora. https://t.co/bbCUr5J6Hl

Lack of a legal definition of 'ultraprocessed foods' is a major issue in nutrition and California's new ban takes on the problem with evidence-based solutions, says CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie. https://t.co/8E2XxwAqHw

"It was a level of effect that was beyond even our wildest expectations," CPC Fellow Ross Boyce says about the protection against malaria children received from wraps treated with insecticide. https://t.co/4s4uN8W04b

CPC Fellows Ted Mouw and Marissa Hall will present as part of UNC's University Research Week next week! View a full schedule of the week's events at https://t.co/o8L1FSQJn2.

Carolina Demography Director Nathan Dollar will speak on a panel at the "Six Decades Later: Legacies of the 1965 Immigration Act" event at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3 at UNC's Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and History. https://t.co/04hcxEzxUz

Insecticide-treated baby wraps help protect against malaria during the day when bed nets can't be used, says CPC Fellow Ross Boyce. https://t.co/PPxNP3QaXy

Congratulations to Carolina Population Center fellows Elizabeth Frankenberg, Robert Hummer, and Nathan Dollar for their successful renewal of the Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health (CCPAH)! Visit the CCPAH website to learn about their work. https://t.co/GSZBRRwFIA