by popcenters | Apr 21, 2023 | GPAC
As the principal professional societies representing the population sciences, the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers wish to express their strong opposition to a proposal introduced on April 19, 2023, in the U.S. House of...
by popcenters | Mar 27, 2023 | GPAC
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...
by popcenters | Feb 20, 2023 | GPAC
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...
by popcenters | Jan 26, 2023 | GPAC
The Office of the Chief Statistician of the United States took a key step forward in its formal process to revise OMB’s statistical standards for collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data across Federal agencies by releasing a set of initial proposals in a...
by popcenters | Jan 4, 2023 | GPAC
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...
by popcenters | Oct 31, 2022 | GPAC
Among the handful of major legislative accomplishments in the nearly completed 117th Congress was the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which was signed into law by President Biden on August 9. Implementation of the Act is underway, with the...
