• US Population: https://www.census.gov/popclock/

• Introduction to Demography: https://www.prb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/population-bulletin-75-no1-an-introduction-to-demography.pdf

• Young Adults Living At Home: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/09/04/a-majority-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-live-with-their-parents-for-the-first-time-since-the-great-depression/

• ​Post-Pandemic Workforce: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-13/remote-work-productivity.htm

• Demographic Turning Points for the United States: Population Projections for 2020 to 2060 (P25-1144).* Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p25-1144.html

• Population Reference Bureau: 7 trends reshaping the health and lifespans of America’s rapidly aging population.  https://www.prb.org/resources/7-trends-reshaping-the-health-and-lifespans-of-americas-rapidly-aging-population/

• National Bureau of Economic Research: Long-term care in the United States(Working Paper No. 31881).  https://doi.org/10.3386/w31881

• What to know about the Older Americans Act and the services it provides to older adults.* KFF.  https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/what-to-know-about-the-older-americans-act-and-the-services-it-provides-to-older-adults/

• National Academy of Medicine: Redefining aging: A call to action for society to address a demographic shift in health care. NAM Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.31478/202507b

• US Congressional Budget Office Demographic Outlook: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-01/60875-demographic-outlook.pdf

• BBC, World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clynq459wxgo

• CDC Quickstats: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6901a5-H.pdf

• CDC Birth Data: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db535.htm

• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, The Lancet: Dramatic declines in global fertility rates set to transform global population patterns by 2100: https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/lancet-dramatic-declines-global-fertility-rates-set-transform

• National Vital Statistics Report, Effects of Age-specific Fertility Trends on Overall Fertility Trends: United States, 1990–2023:  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr74/nvsr74-3.pdf

• National Center for Health Statistics Data Brief: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db535.pdf​

• NPR, As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges:  https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/nx-s1-5388357/birth-rate-fertility-replacement-pronatalist-politics

• PEW: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/08/02/what-do-americans-think-about-fewer-people-choosing-to-have-children/

• Population Reference Bureau Fertility Map: https://www.prb.org/international/indicator/fertility/map/country

• United Nations World Fertility Report 2024: https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/undesa_pd_2025_wfr_2024_final.pdf

Episode 4: Demography and Climate Disasters 

• The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). US in Disaster - Analysis of FEMA Data, March 2025.  https://www.iied.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2025/03/IIED_FEMA_Disasters_Factsheet_Mar2025.pdf

• Major disaster in the US declared every four days in 2024, IIED analysis shows via Prevention Web, March 2025. https://www.preventionweb.net/news/major-disaster-us-declared-every-four-days-2024-iied-analysis-shows

• Environmental Protection Agency: Heat Related Deaths. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-heat-related-deaths

• ABC News: As much of the US braces for extreme heat, statistics show 2,000 die from it annually, July 2025. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-braces-extreme-heat-statistics-show-2000-die/story?id=124136576#:~:text=During%20the%20previous%20two%20years,declining%20to%202%2C394%20last%20year.

• National Institute of Building Sciences: Mitigation Saves: Federal Grants Provide a $6 Benefit for Each $1 Invested, 2019. https://nibs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ms_v3_federalgrants.pdf

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Episode 5: Bad Bunny and America: Reading the Super Bowl Demographically

• Fanáticos: Nielsen’s playbook on Hispanic media consumption and sports engagement, 2024. https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2024/playbook-hispanic-audiences-sports-media-engagement-2024-diverse-intelligent-series-report/

• How Many People Watch the Super Bowl? Statistics and Ratings History, Sports Illustrated, 2025. https://www.si.com/nfl/how-many-people-watch-the-super-bowl-statistics-and-ratings-history

• 6 Latin Music Artists Surpassing 1 Billion Streams in the U.S., Luminate, 2024. https://luminatedata.com/blog/6-latin-music-artists-surpassing-1-billion-streams-in-the-u-s

• Full list of every Super Bowl halftime performer in history: Bad Bunny to headline show in 2026. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/full-list-of-every-super-bowl-halftime-performer-in-history-bad-bunny-to-headline-show-in-2026/

• Bad Bunny’s music streams soar since 2026 Super Bowl halftime show news. 2025. https://apnews.com/article/bad-bunny-streams-super-bowl-halftime-show-c7ab405d51032ae3e56614d1a1158a2a

• RIAA 2024 Year-End US Market  Latin Music Revenue Report. https://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/RIAA-2024-Year-End-US-Market-Latin-Music-Revenue-Report.pdf

• The 2024 Domestic Box Office Narrowly Misses Massive Milestone. 2025. https://collider.com/2024-domestic-box-office-8-7-billion-disney

• The Anatomy of Cohort Analysis: Decomposing Comparative Cohort Careers. 2023. https://cwinship.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1506/files/cwinship/files/fosse_winship_the_anatomy_of_cohort_analysis.pdf

• The Theory of Demographic Metabolism. 2025. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/the_theory_of_demographic_metabolism_4275#:~:text=Norman%20Ryder%2C%20in%20his%20seminal,societies%20change%20through%20generational%20replacement.

• Sociological Theorists: Stuart Hall. 2023 https://www.grahamscambler.com/sociological-theorists-stuart-hall/

• Cultivation Theory In Media. 2023. https://www.simplypsychology.org/cultivation-theory.html

• OUR BOOK!!! --->> Latinos in the US: Diversity and Change. https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=latinaos-in-the-united-states-diversity-and-change-2nd-edition--9781509537105#:~:text=In%20this%20second%20edition%20of,crime%20and%20victimization%2C%20mass%20media%2C

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Episode 6: Hashtags and Humans: The Demography of Social  Media

• Social Media and Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory, Office of the Surgeon General. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/sg-youth-mental-health-social-media-summary.pdf & https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html

• Cyberbullying and Victimization, The Cyberbullying Institute, 2025. https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html

• Major disaster in the US declared every four days in 2024, IIED analysis shows via Prevention Web, March 2025. https://www.preventionweb.net/news/major-disaster-us-declared-every-four-days-2024-iied-analysis-shows

• Social Media and News Fact Sheet, Pew Research Center, 2025. https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet/

• Social Media Fact Sheet, Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/social-media/

• Americans' Social Media Use, Pew Research Center, 2024. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/01/31/americans-social-media-use/

• ​ICT Indicators Database, World Bank Group, 2025. https://data360.worldbank.org/en/dataset/ITU_DH

• Global Connectivity, World Bank Group, 2025. https://data360.worldbank.org/en/digital/connectivity

• Individuals Using the Internet, World Bank Group, 2025. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?end=2024&start=1990&view=chart​

Season 2

Episode 7 What Does Mass Incarceration Have To Do With the Census?

•    Prison Policy Initiative — States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2024 – https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html
•    The Sentencing Project — Mass Incarceration Trends (Updated May 2024) – https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/mass-incarceration-trends/
•    Bureau of Justice Statistics — Prisoners in 2023: Statistical Tables (September 2025, NCJ 310197) – https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/prisoners-2023-statistical-tables
•    U.S. Sentencing Commission — 2023 Demographic Differences in Federal Sentencing – https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/2023-demographic-differences-federal-sentencing
•    Prison Policy Initiative — Updated charts: Racial disparities (April 2024) – https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/04/01/updated-charts/
•    Demography Journal (2023) — A Generational Shift: Race and the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10662370/
•    Prison Gerrymandering Project / Prison Policy Initiative – https://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/
•    Brennan Center for Justice — Prison Gerrymandering Distorts Representation – https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/prison-gerrymandering-distorts-representation
•    Vera Institute — Elections Are Warped by Prison Gerrymandering Year After Year (November 2023) – https://www.vera.org/news/elections-are-warped-by-prison-gerrymandering-year-after-year
•    Prison Gerrymandering Project — Fourteen States Ripe for Reform (November 2025) – https://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2025/11/12/14-state-reports/
•    The Sentencing Project — Locked Out 2024: Four Million Denied Voting Rights Due to a Felony Conviction – https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/locked-out-2024-four-million-denied-voting-rights-due-to-a-felony-conviction/
•    The Sentencing Project — Voting Rights in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Primer (January 2025) – https://www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/voting-rights-in-the-era-of-mass-incarceration-a-primer/
•    The Sentencing Project — Voting Rights for All – https://www.sentencingproject.org/voting-rights-for-all/
 

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Episode 8: The Religion to Demography Connection

•    Pew Research Center — Religious 'Nones' in America: Who They Are and What They Believe (January 2024) – https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/01/24/religious-nones-in-america-who-they-are-and-what-they-believe/
•    Pew Research Center — Religious Landscape Study 2023-24: Decline of Christianity Has Slowed (February 2025) – https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/decline-of-christianity-in-the-us-has-slowed-may-have-leveled-off/
•    Pew Research Center — Why Americans Leave, Stay in Their Childhood Religion (December 2025) – https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/12/15/why-do-some-americans-leave-their-religion-while-others-stay/

•    Pew Research Center — Religion, Fertility and Child-Rearing: 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (February 2025) – https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religion-fertility-and-child-rearing/
•    Pew Research Center — Demographic Profiles of Religious Groups: Chapter 3 – https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/05/12/chapter-3-demographic-profiles-of-religious-groups/

•    Institute for Family Studies — America's Growing Religious-Secular Fertility Divide – https://ifstudies.org/blog/americas-growing-religious-secular-fertility-divide

•    JAMA Internal Medicine (2016) — Association of Religious Service Attendance with Mortality Among Women (Harvard/Nurses' Health Study) – https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2521827
•    Harvard Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality — Coverage of the JAMA study – https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/rshm/news/media-outlets
•    PMC — Mortality Differentials and Religion in the U.S.: More than 6 years difference in life expectancy at 55 by religious affiliation – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3035005/