An article in the February 27 issue of the Christian Science Monitor examines the downward trend in young people’s earnings in the US: America’s younger workers losing ground on income.

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Funding for Faculty Investigators

FY 2006 Evaluation of Mentoring Initiative for System Involved Youth
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

Identifying “Ground-Breaking” Behavioral Interventions to Prevent Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Transmission in High Risk Groups
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Strategies for Identifying At-Risk African American Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Who Are Unaware of Their HIV Status
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Continued Development and Maintenance of Software [NIAAA added as sponsoring institute]
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Formative Internet-Based Intervention Research to Improve Health and Reduce HIV Transmission among HIV-Positive Persons
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Genome-Wide Association Studies to Identify Genetic Components that Relate to Heart, Lung, and Blood Disorders (R01)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

HIV Prevention Intervention Research with HIV-positive Incarcerated Populations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Middle East and North Africa Initiative: Human Rights
- Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation Network)

National Maternal and Child Health Data Resource Center Cooperative Agreement (DRC CAP) Program
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Parental Factors Related to Children Missing Scheduled Immunization Visits
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Reducing Sexual Risk for HIV Acquisition and Transmission among African American and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Research to Evaluate an Effective Community-level Intervention Adapted for Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Use of Respondent-Driven Sampling to Reach Bisexually-Active Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Post-Doctoral Opportunities

Transitions to College Post-doctoral Grants
- Lumina Foundation for Education
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Funding Opportunities Open To Faculty And Students

Active Living Research—Round 6 (Childhood Obesity)
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The DHS Male Recode files for the Bangladesh 2004 DHS+ survey have been updated. Question QM315 is now recoded as a country specific variable SM315. The new files have been added to the PRI DHS PopNet UNIX collection.

The AHS 2003 National data file has been re-released by the Census Bureau/HUD (incorrect weights used for file - preliminary rather than final). The data file is the only file affected, documentation is unchanged. The new data file is available as a SAS transport file on PopNet UNIX and has been added to the PRI AHS SodaPop Collection, replacing the previous version containing the incorrect weights.

The 2005 Current Population Survey (CPS) ASEC was re-released by the Census Bureau as version 3. This version of the data has data for noncash benefits values and after tax values included. The PDF technical documentation has also been revised since the last re-release (12/2005). The new files have been downloaded and added to the PRI CPS PopNet UNIX collection and will be added to SodaPop as soon as it is possible.

The National Immunization Survey (NIS) SodaPop Collection has been updated with data and documentation for 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2004 (2002 available previously). All of the NIS data on SodaPop is also accessible in its raw format on PopNet UNIX.

Two recent reports from the Population Reference Bureau examine the growing Hispanic population in the US:

Hispanics Account for Almost One-Half of U.S. Population Growth

Latino Births Increase in Nontraditional Destination States

Not Quite Ready to Retire, an article from the Feburary 27, 2006 issue of TIME magazine, looks at “bridge jobs”, or jobs held for less than 10 years following retirement from full-time work.

Images of Aging in America 2004, a new research report from AARP, measures peoples’ attitudes and understanding of aging. The study found that, despite demographic shifts, knowledge about aging has changed little since a similar survey was conducted in 1994.

The Census Bureau has released new income and poverty estimates using different income definitions to produce alternative poverty rates. Read the full report: The Effects of Government Taxes and Transfers on Income and Poverty: 2004.