Can the right framing help advance conversations around equity in educational policy? MPC member David M. Quinn examined what frames helped build support for equity-focused policies among different groups. Read more: https://bit.ly/4vyKWwr
Since the beginning of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, thousands of Minnesotans have lost income. MPC members Nick Graetz and Yusra Murad used multiple scenarios to estimate the increase in 'rent-debt'. They expect the burden to continue to grow. https://bit.ly/4sr9X9R
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Congratulations to MPC members Juan Del Toro and Xiaoran Sun on being named McKnight Land-Grant Professors! https://bit.ly/3Qdm2lu
Congratulations to MPC member Manka Nkimbeng on being named a McKnight Presidential Fellow! https://bit.ly/4tbKItw
Congratulations to MPC member Heather Randell on being named a McKnight Presidential Fellow! https://bit.ly/4tbKItw
Congratulations to Xiaoran Sun and Juan Del Toro on receiving a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship from the University of Minnesota! https://bit.ly/3Qdm2lu
“The choice to use credit scores in pricing means that those lower-credit home owners in risky areas are effectively subsidizing more affluent high-credit homeowners who also live in risky areas,” said MPC Member Nick Graetz. https://nyti.ms/4cIRr8U
Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth Wrigley-Field on being named the 2026 College of Liberal Arts Dean's Medalist! https://bit.ly/4sMu8zT
"There is much to learn from children and the choices they make," say MPC researchers Anna Bolgrien and Deborah Levison when discussing the new, innovative ways to understand children's views in research. theconversation.com/childrens-vi...
Congratulations to Elizabeth Wrigley Field (@wrigleyfield.bsky.social) on receiving the MidCareer Faculty Research Award from the College of Liberal Arts for "How Demography Constrains and Enables Ideational Persistence and Change." cla.umn.edu/research-cre...
ISRDI Postdoc Tatiana Padilla spoke with @mprnews.org @catharinerichert.bsky.social about what the current rhetoric is having on Minnesota's Somali community and what we know so far. www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...
“Health care inflation has gone up. General inflation has gone up, and individuals are being asked to pay more,” said Abraham, especially for pricey drugs from Orladeyo to Ozempic. www.minnpost.com/state-govern...
Our home Institute is hiring! We are actively recruiting for a Program Coordinator and a Communications Manager for the newly launching NIA Demography and Economics on Aging Coordinator Center. Learn more about both positions and apply: isrdi.umn.edu/employment
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We have positions available for Fall 2025 with flexible timing! Check out our NIH T32 postdoc positions and share with your networks. pop.umn.edu/training/pos...
How many deaths are attributable to the slowdown📉in mortality improvements in the US?
In a new study with @astokespop.bsky.social and @wrigleyfield.bsky.social we estimate 525,505 excess deaths in 2023 alone
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📣 We are seeking to fill multiple postdoctoral positions! We have funding to fill NIH T32 program-based positions. Positions start Fall 2025, but timing is flexible! We'll begin reviewing applications July 21st, 2025 - so don't wait! Apply now! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...
"We have new drugs and medical technologies that have been very, very effective and successful," [MPC Member] @wrigleyfield.bsky.social explains, adding, "you would hope that that would be true in 60 years of medical progress." www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...
“These deaths are driven by long-running crises in drug overdose, gun violence, car collisions, and preventable cardiometabolic deaths," says MPC member @wrigleyfield.bsky.social
Excess deaths, meaning the number of deaths above the expected death rate, spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic and remain higher than peer nations in 2023, particularly for adults aged 25-44.
Adults aged 25-44 in the U.S. are 2.5 times more likely to die than international peers.
In 2023, a staggering 45.9% of U.S. deaths under 65 years old would have been prevented if we had the death rate of other wealthy nations.
The study found U.S. death rates were one-third higher than death rates in 21 other wealthy nations, including Canada, Finland, Iceland and Portugal.
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There were over 1.5 million “missing Americans” in 2022 and 2023—deaths that would have been averted if US mortality rates matched those of peer countries. MPC member @wrigleyfield.bsky.social is a coauthor on this new study: z.umn.edu/missing-Amer...
MPC Member Ragui Assaad was recently interviewed about Egypt’s National Employment Strategy. He warns measuring and addressing unemployment rates need to account both for people dropping out of the labor force and upcoming demographic changes. english.ahram.org.eg/News/545804....
Economic headwinds faced by millennials, the largest portion of the workforce, has lead to lower home ownership rates, less wealth, and fewer kids. Check out this interview with MPC member Janna Johnson about what more economic uncertainty could mean for this group. www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...
