The PRI Library has received a job announcement from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health for a research associate.

The PRI Library has received a conference announcement from the Population Association of America for their 2007 annual meeting.

Information Core staff will be out of the office Friday, September 1.

The PRI Library (707 Oswald) will be open normal hours on Friday, September 1. The library will be closed on Monday, September 4 for Labor Day. Anyone with ID card access to the library will be able to access the library any time.

Work and Retirement: Facts and Figures outlines the effects of an aging population and related challenges for workers, employers, and policymakers.

The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP as an Insurance Safety Net (data sheet explores how effective Medicaid and SCHIP have been in protecting health insurance coverage for low-income children and adults)

Understanding Diverse Neighborhoods in an Era of Demographic Change focuses on the racial and ethnic diversity of mixed-income urban and suburban neighborhoods.

New reports from the Urban Institute on children and families:

State-Level Changes in Children’s Well-Being and Family Environment (No. 24 in the series, “Snapshots of America’s Families III”)

Understanding Recent Changes in Child Poverty (No. A-71 in the series, “New Federalism: Issues and Options for States”)

The Changing Role of Welfare in the Lives of Low-Income Families with Children (report from “Assessing the New Federalism”)

The following papers are from a roundtable sponsored by the Urban Institute and Child Trends, “Trends and Policies that Affect Low-Income Children: What Are the Next Steps?”

Children in Low-Income Families: Summary of The Urban Institute and Child Trends Roundtable on Children in Low-Income Families

An Overview of Selected Data on Children in Vulnerable Families

An article that will appear in the October 2006 issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine explains the links between poverty and public health. The authors found that severe poverty has been on the rise since 2000, and children have been particularly affected. (press release on Newswise)

The Census Bureau released new data from the 2006 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) and economic tabulations from the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS) yesterday. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005 (PDF) summarizes findings from the CPS-ASEC, and a fact sheet notes differences between the CPS and ACS income and poverty estimates.

Links to data, reports, presentations, and press releases can be found on the Census Bureau news conference page.