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Eugenio Paglino @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social · Jun 14

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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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Jul 15

📣 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...

Postdoctoral TrainingWe hire both project-based Post Doctoral Associates and program-based Post Doctoral Trainees.

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Jun 11

"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...

RFK Jr. says Americans were healthier when his uncle was president. Is he right?

American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today. And the leading causes of death were chronic diseases. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently tells a different story.

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · May 28

Read more about the study at z.umn.edu/missing-Amer...

US Excess Deaths Continued to Rise Even After the COVID-19 Pandemic | Minnesota Population Center

In 2022 and 2023, the United States saw over 1.5 million more deaths than expected. Excess US deaths have been increasing for decades, with working-age adults disproportionately affected. This trend c...

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · May 28

“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

Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · May 28

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.

Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · May 28

Adults aged 25-44 in the U.S. are 2.5 times more likely to die than international peers.

Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · May 28

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.

Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · May 28

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.

Assessing Egypt’s labour market dynamics - Egypt - Al-Ahram Weekly

Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · May 28

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...

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · May 13

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....

Al-Ahram Weekly interviews economist Ragui Assaad about labour market trends and challenges.

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Apr 15

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...

Minnesota's largest generation, millennials, face a third round of economic uncertainty

Older millennials were just entering the workforce during the 2008 Great Recession. Then came COVID-19. And millennials are once again faced with economic uncertainty at an age where they may be makin...

Minnesota's largest generation, millennials, face a third round of economic uncertainty

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Apr 15

Did you miss it live? Find the interview with Janna Johnson here: www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

Older millennials were just entering the workforce during the 2008 Great Recession. Then came COVID-19. And millennials are once again faced with economic uncertainty at an age where they may be makin...

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Apr 14

Take a listen at 12:30 pm today to @mprnews.org (www.mprnews.org) to catch our very own Janna Johnson talking with Nina Moini about the potential impact of a 3rd economic crisis for millenials.

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Five years after COVID-19 lockdown, racial health disparities linger

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Mar 20

It was through the MPC that @wrigleyfield.bsky.social and JP Leider connected to analyze death certificates as the COVID-19 pandemic evolved here in Minnesota. Connections like that can to lead to some really insightful work. Read more: www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

People of color experience a disproportionate burden of COVID-19 cases and deaths. In Minnesota, deaths from COVID-19 have been concentrated in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

An Arden Hills store might have to move because it opened where the city doesn’t allow thrift shops

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Mar 14

It’s rare for cities to have zoning rules that treat thrift stores differently from other retail, said [MPC Member] Evan Roberts... “Cities are generally trying to move towards a more flexible approach to regulating specific uses."

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · Mar 13

The Minnesota Zoning Atlas (part of the @zoningatlas.bsky.social) isn’t studying second hand stores, but we’ve read lots of code. Tight regulation on where a thrift store can go is a bit unusual. Thanks to @gretakaul.bsky.social for interview and story!
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Odds and Ends Again opened in January in a corner of Arden Hills where thrift stores were banned a decade ago.

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Mar 11

Don't wait! The deadline to apply for our undergraduate and graduate, paid summer fellowship is March 16th! Please share this wonderful opportunity: isrdi.umn.edu/diversity-fe...

ISRDI Diversity Fellowship Summer 2025. Be a part of something BIG.

Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Feb 27

We are seeking undergrad & grad students to be part of our paid fellowship program this summer! We have a great line up of data and research projects to work on and a program designed to give you practical skills as you advance in your career. Apply by March 16th! isrdi.umn.edu/diversity-fe...

Institute for Social Research & Data Innovation Diversity Fellowship Summer 2025 - Be a part of something BIG.