The Lowe Down

JANUARY 5, 2022

A study of the Great Recession’s impact in the United States found that “in 2007, the birth rate was 69.1 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0 Overall, 22% of the selected shocks are from 2009. Generally, the belief is that recessions lead to fewer children because of financial and family hardship.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

She completed her second mission in 2007, as the first female commander of the International Space Station, on Expedition 16. She also served as the first female chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from 2009 to 2012.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).

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