The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a new version of Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity and Medical Care, updated for 2007. The report includes data on the uninsured, access to care, and disparities in the impact of specific conditions on racial and ethnic populations.

New reports from the Urban Institute:

• The Characteristics of Unauthorized Immigrants in California, Los Angeles County, and the United States
• Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Labor Force, 2000-2005
• Immigrants and the Low-Wage Economy (panel discussion audio files)

New from the Employee Benefit Research Institute: Employment-Based Health Benefits: Access and Coverage, 1988-2005

One Out of Five U.S. Children is Living in an Immigrant Family is a new Data Snapshot from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT project.

The PRI Library has received announcements from the Minnesota Population Center for their IPUMS Summer Workshop and Summer Workshop on GIS.

The PRI Library has received an announcement from the University of Michigan for a conference on Complex System Approaches to Population Health.

The PRI Library has received an announcement from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for a two-day hands-on Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Data User Workshop.

The US needs to increase production of postsecondary degrees and reduce achievement gaps among racial and socioeconomic groups in order to stay competitive with other developed countries, according to Hitting Home: Quality, Cost, and Access Challenges Confronting Higher Education Today (PDF), a new report released today by Making Opportunity Affordable, an initiative of Jobs for the Future.

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

Funding for Faculty Investigators

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers: Special Interest Project Competitive Supplements (U48) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13) - National Library of Medicine (NLM)

The Great Lakes Human Health Effects Research Program (R01) - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Yicheng’s birthrate is lower than the Chinese national average, even though the county is exempt from the “one child policy”. The article also examines related issues, such as population aging and the effects of sex selection on Chinese society.