Press Coverage

A. National

· “Many Families Are Adding a Third Generation to Their Households” New York Times, May 25, 2006, page 1.

· “With love, longevity, couples can reach 75^th” Chicago Tribune, May 26, 2005.

· “Extended families and family reunions in American life,” Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, July 3, 2003.

· “Making Social Science Data More Useful,” Science October 29, 1999 (286: 880a)

· “The King of Quant,” Wired Magazine 3 (1995), 86-90

· “200 years and out? - how welfare benefits have contributed to the number of single parent black families since the 1960s” National Review, April 4, 1994

· “For many blacks, family tree long splintered Study suggests a pattern born of cultural differences,” USA Today Mon., Jan. 17, 1994

B. Upper Midwest

· “Q&A with Steven Ruggles,” Minnesota Monthly, July 2005

· “U research project is a heckuva deal” Star Tribune, June 25, 2005, p. 1.

· “U wins $5 million grant to build world population database” Saint Paul Pioneer Press, September 30, 2004.

· “Bidding war for key professor illustrates struggle to compete,” Saint Paul Pioneer Press (front page) February 8, 2001.

· “Higher income, higher taxes,” Star Tribune Op-Ed, 4/3/99

· “Ideal of independent individualism bears high price as extended families decline,” Saint Paul Pioneer Press, March 2, 1994 (editiorial)

· “Shrinking of Extended Family Households adds another wrinkle to social woes,” Saint Paul Pioneer Press, February 23, 1994 (editiorial)

· “‘U’ Study Looks at Issue of Race, Single-Parent Families,” Star Tribune Page 1, 1/10/94

· “110 Years & Counting // 1880 Census Data Finds Miseries Under Veneer Of `Good Old Days,’“ Star Tribune, 3/7/90

· “The Shrinking Household,” Star Tribune 1/5/89

· “Her Mission: To Make History Important Again,” Star Tribune 10/5/87

· “Big ‘U’ Classes Give Freshmen the Taste of College Life,” Star Tribune 9/29/87

· “In past, most black kids had two parents,” Capital Times (Madison, WI) February 17, 1994

C. University of Minnesota

· “U’s census data center expands on the West bank,” Minnesota Daily, February 21, 2005.

· “Minnesota Population Center moves to new location at U: The center had a $1.6 billion (sic) renovation and is now located in Willey Hall,” Minnesota Daily, October 5, 2004.

· “Population Center Digitizes World’s Census Data,” Minnesota Daily, June 9, 2003

· “Online Project Allows Research of Family Ancestry,” Minnesota Daily, October 29, 2002

· “Grant to fund database,” Minnesota Daily 10/26/1999

· “Students are Census Target for Head Count Headache,” Minnesota Daily 5/27/1999

· “Web Site Organizes Years of Census Info for Public Access,” Minnesota Daily 9/25/1997

· “New insights sought with census database,” Minnesota Daily 4/28/1997

· “U professor plans to clarify family’s role in history,” Minnesota Daily 11/16/1987

· “Tracking Terabytes,” CLA Today, Winter 2003.