Debt Ceiling Deal Over the Memorial Day weekend, President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy announced that they had reached an agreement to suspend the Federal government’s debt ceiling until January 2025 and provide a framework for the annual appropriations bills, which fund all...
With generous support from the W.T. Grant Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, two groups of current/recent undergraduates participated in the PAA 2023 Annual Meeting! Coordinated by PAA’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee (chaired by Tyson Brown, Duke University...
President Biden Releases Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Proposal: What’s In it for the Population Sciences? On March 9, the Biden Administration began releasing details of its Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget request to Congress. The President’s budget is a symbolic document used to communicate...
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....
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...
The Nominating Committee is pleased to put forward the following slate for the 2023 PAA Election. The Nominating Committee is comprised of Pamela Herd (Georgetown University), Hedwig Lee (Washinton University Saint-Louis) and Jenny Trinitapoli (University of Chicago). President ...
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) , is a new federal scientific research agency created by the Biden Administration to “support the development of high-impact research to drive biomedical and health breakthroughs to deliver transformative, sustainable, and equitable...
In just 3 weeks, colleagues and applied demographers will meet in Annapolis, Maryland, for the first in-person PAA Applied Demography Conference! Program co-chairs Mike Cline, North Carolina Office of State Budget & Management, and Muntasir Masum, Pennsylvania State University, are excited...
Thank you to all of the volunteers who finished their term in 2022. A special thank you goes out to Robert A. Hummer, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, who exited the Board as the immediate Past President. Thank you to these members who finished their term on the Board of Directors...
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...