Demographics: The coming population collapse
When I was born near the Baby Boom’s peak, many people worried that the population was growing too fast. Today, the shoe is on the other foot. All over the…
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When I was born near the Baby Boom’s peak, many people worried that the population was growing too fast. Today, the shoe is on the other foot. All over the…
Insane: Food services made up less than a quarter of consumer food expenditures in the 1950s; they passed 46% for the first time in October and seem destined to become…
“More immigration would help meet today’s excess demand for labor, which over time would limit wage and price growth,” wrote Gordon Hanson, an urban policy professor at Harvard and Matthew…
Millennials are overwhelmingly more likely to say they feel wealthy — with 57% of those ages 26 to 41 saying they feel this way, compared with only about 40% of…
New York City has lost 5.3% of its population — nearly 475,000 people — since the start of COVID. And most of them are hunkering down in the South. Here’s…
This blog has documented the rapid rise of elementary school closures, which is now extending to middle and high school as well. Here in the U.S. this is just about…