Government Affairs

On March 14, 2023, after two years of virtual advocacy day events, the Population Association of America (PAA), in collaboration with the Association of Population Centers (APC), sponsored its first in-person Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill. The return to in-person meetings with offices in the U.S. Congress was extremely successful! read more ...

On Thursday, February 16, the Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity , an inter-agency advisory group led by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), sponsored a (by invitation only) listening session to receive input on potential revisions to the current federal statistical standards for read more ...

Since October 1, Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 has been operating on a series of continuing resolutions while leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have been debating details of the 12 appropriations bills that fund all federal agencies. Almost three months later, and two days before Christmas, both chambers of read more ...

On the last day of Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, September 30, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a party-line vote of 230-201, a bill (H.R. 6833) to fund the Federal government through December 16. On September 29, the bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), was approved by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 77-25. President read more ...

On September 23, PAA and the Association of Population Centers sponsored its second virtual congressional briefing of 2022, “ Assessing COVID Economic Relief: What Worked, What’s Next? ” The briefing highlighted examples of cutting-edge research that population scientists are conducting regarding the impact of COVID-19 economic read more ...