Children

Experts Sound the Alarm on Declining Birth Rates among Younger Generations: “It’s a Crisis” 
by CBS News, March 3, 2021
A serious but animated 5-minute multimedia production of unusually high quality. Includes Dowell Myers’s most exceptional contribution of the pandemic years (blues harmonica included). > CBS News

The New Importance of Children in America
by Dowell Myers, October 2017
sponsored by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health and the Children’s Hospital Association > Report (pdf)

The Doubled Importance of Children in California
by Dowell Myers, October 2017
Dowell Myers video interview on importance of children with data animations, March 29, 2017 (Video length 9:16) > YouTube Video

Why California Needs the Young if it’s to Thrive
by Dowell Myers, February 25, 2014
> Los Angeles Times op-ed

iCi: Index of Children’s Importance
by Dowell Myers, January 2013
> Powerpoint Presentation (pdf)

How Do the 50 States Rank on Child Loss?
by Dowell Myers, January 2013
> Excel Tables (xlsx)

How Do California’s Counties Rank on Child Loss?
by Dowell Myers, January 2013
> Excel Tables (xlsx)

California’s Diminishing Resource: Children
by Dowell Myers, January 2013
sponsored by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health > Report (pdf)

The Contributions of Immigrants and Their Children to the American Workforce and Jobs of the Future
by Dowell Myers, Stephen Levy and John Pitkin, June 2013
sponsored by the Center for American Progress > Report (pdf)