The PAA and APC Executive Committees formally adopted and signed a resolution on March 19, 2025. The resolution urges Congress and the Administration take several steps to redress recent policies and actions that are adversely affecting the population sciences, researchers, and students. The...
PAA APC resolution for Advocacy Day 2025 SIGS.pdf
Undersigned organizations and individuals express concerns regarding a recent announcement by the Social Security Administration immediately terminating the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC) cooperative agreements. #GPAC2025 #LettersandComments
FINAL SSA RCDC sign on letter 3-25.pdf
PAA and APC submitted comments regarding the draft framework of the FY 2026-2030 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Strategic Plan for Disability Health Research. #GPAC2025 #LettersandComments
FINAL PAA APC comments on NIH disability research plan 3-25.pdf
PAA and APC joined 11 other organizations to urge the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to reschedule the canceled January meeting of the National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) as soon as possible. The meeting was originally scheduled on January 28-29, 2025. According to the NACA...
250307 GSA Sign on Letter RE NACA Meeting.pdf
Please see this video message from PAA President Irma Elo on how PAA is responding to the uncertainty in our government. Ways you can help… Action Alerts Stayed tuned to your e-mail for alerts of when and how to contact your Congressional representative. See PAA Action...
Representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have unilaterally cancelled an unprecedented number of contracts that support evaluation, research, and data collection for the U.S. Department of Education. When we know that the average student remains nearly half a grade...
On February 11, PAA and APC joined more than 230 national, state, and local organizations and 2,600 individuals representing data users from the private, public, non-profit, and scientific sectors nationwide to urge Congress to order the restoration of taxpayer financed data removed from federal...
During the week of January 27, 2025, data from federal agency websites and portals began disappearing, including data produced by the U.S. Census Bureau, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Agency for International Development. Although some of these data have since been...
As the presidents of the Population Association of America and the Association of Population Centers , we are writing to express our alarm about recent events in which federal agencies have been purging scientific and statistical data from publicly available portals and websites. ...
FINAL PAA APC statement on federal data purge 2-25.pdf