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Topic: Demography

A view of an art installation against gun violence at March For Our Lives 'Road To Change' & Life Camp Unity Celebration on August 11, 2018 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Small cities seeing gun violence spike

Matthew Rozsa
A cellphone displaying a photo of Elon Musk placed on a computer monitor filled with Twitter logos (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

What we would lose without Twitter

Anjana Susarla - The Conversation
World map composed of people (Getty Images/imaginima)

Humanity just hit 8 billion. What now?

Troy Farah
Monkeypox virus (Getty Images/kontekbrothers)

When monkeypox comes to rural areas

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
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Two adult female are having disagreements with upbringing kid (Getty Images/JackF)

Millennial parents reject Boomer wisdom

Nicole Karlis
Laboratory assistant director Stella Atewe analyses chemistry profiles at the Lagos State Isolation Centre in Yaba, Lagos, on January 22, 2021. - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria is increasing rapidly following daily reports by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) even as Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, accounted for the highest number of cases in the country. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)

Why COVID cases are so low in Africa

Nicole Karlis
Woman sleeping in bed (Getty Images/JGI/Tom Grill)

The sleep gap and the income gap

Nicole Karlis
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Fewer adults want children — a lot fewer

Jennifer Watling Neal, Zachary Neal - The Conversation
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Pregnant mother holding her stomach (Getty Images)

The looming fertility crash

Matthew Rozsa
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Why rents rise while incomes don't

Nicole Karlis
A homeless man sleeps in front of a luxury auto dealership in San Francisco, California on June, 10, 2016. (Getty/Josh Edelson)

Why people are fleeing Silicon Valley

Nicole Karlis
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Welcome to suburbia

Christopher Boone - The Conversation
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The remnants of a destroyed home stand more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island on October 6, 2017. (Getty/Mario Tama)

Reasons the US is vulnerable to disaters

Morten Wendelbo - The Conversation
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Porn viewers not as violent as thought

Eran Shor, Kimberly Seida - The Conversation
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Job market tough for many Americans

Erin Wolcott - The Conversation
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Poverty rising faster in suburbs

Scott W. Allard - The Conversation
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US fertility is dropping — here's why

Caroline Sten Hartnett - The Conversation
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America’s graying population in 3 maps

Peter Rogerson - The Conversation
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Millennial women struggle to afford kids

Nicole Karlis
Burning Man participants walk on the playa at the Black Rock Desert (AP/Brad Horn)

Burning Man's gentrification

Keith A. Spencer
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Rural areas have been especially slow to recover from the Great Recession (AP)

Kenneth Johnson - The Conversation
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Jennifer Van Hook, Barrett Lee - The Conversation
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, left, co-founder Biz Stone, center, and Amir Movafaghi, right, Twitter's Director of Treasury and Strategic Finance, applaud as shares begin trading in their IPO, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Nov. 7, 2013. (AP/Richard Drew)

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Uncle Sam needs your uterus!

Irin Carmon
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