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As previously reported, most professionals and college educated are over saving for their retirement years, and in so doing, are forgoing other beneficial life experiences earlier that they may not…
As the nation recovers from the pandemic-induced recession, finding workers to fill job openings has been a headwind for many regions and industries. Although many researchers have pointed to the…
The young tend to spend more on products. Think of buying a home and then needing to (eventually) add furnishings, kitchen utensils, laundry machines and so on. The old tend…
I added a big update to this post so adding this link as a new, updated quick look: 22-Demographics: An important reason to develop international skills
This is all over the country: Similar scenarios are playing out all over Oregon. A lack of qualified healthcare workers, which began before the pandemic and worsened after COVID-19 hit,…
The Demographic Outlook: 2022 to 2052 | Congressional Budget Office (cbo.gov) Previous analyses of Census Bureau estimates make plain that the nation’s population growth has ground down to a historic…
Just as WW2 impacted population demographics and age distributions up to the present, the policies (most of which did not work) of public health will cost society and individuals for…
Population growth is slowing or reversing just about everywhere in the country. That has enormous implications for our future economy and prosperity. …. There’s a split among observers as to…
So to address the shortage, some in the industry and in Congress are calling for some big changes. Among them are raising the mandatory pilot retirement age from 65 to…
Fully-autonomous restaurant Mezli will open on August 28 in San Franciso. Its co-founder and CEO hopes the new robot-powered eatery will be the first of many. Source: These Stanford engineers…