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The decline in births is causing some smaller hospitals to consider closing their obstetrics units. Research suggests they begin to have too few births to maintain the services and care…
Watch the video. It’s a shortage across multiple job functions, not just pilots. Why the U.S. is running out of pilots (cnbc.com) Pilot training is time-consuming and very expensive. But…
In 2030, America will experience a demographic turning point when all baby boomers will be older than 65. That will equal one out of five Americans. Also importantly, by 2034,…
To be fair, the “experts” have been wrong about almost everything the past two and half years. It’s known as the “Suicide of Expertise”. Georgieva added that economists were more…
Government poverty-reduction programs were decisive. Source: America’s successful war on poverty Part of it (but not all of it) might be because there are a lot fewer children:
Last fall (2021), we thought we’d see a return of trick or treating after prior years’ Covid restrictions. We had just 4 knocks on the front door. We had moved…
The declining youth population in the U.S. is already leading to tough decisions about closing elementary schools. In a few years, decisions will need to be made about middle schools…
Technocracy privileges the opinions and viewpoints of technical experts, exalting them into a kind of aristocracy, while marginalizing the opinions and viewpoints of the general public. Source: Technocracy – Wikipedia…
There are multiple factors at play here: There are 4 million fewer college students than there were a decade ago. Among students who graduated high school in 2016, 70% began…
The working-age population historically drives the economy. According to a report by the World Bank, the world’s working-age population peaked back in 2012. Since then, it’s been on the decline.…