33-Demographics: Shortage of health care workers
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,…
31-Demographics: Media catching on to the population decline
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…
25- Demographics: Pandemic policy effects on students may last decades
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…
Part 14 – Population Demographics: “America’s Demographic Winter”
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…
Part 9 – Population Demographics: “Pilot shortage prompts proposals to raise retirement age, lower training hours. : NPR”
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…
Part 8 – Population Demographics: Fully automated restaurant eliminates labor
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…
Part 7 – Population Demographics: Fertility rates in sharp decline globally
(Part 5 has not yet been finished) Korea’s fertility rate is now 0.81 and the country’s population will be cut in half within 50 years. OECD Data When the fertility…
Part 6 – Population Demographics: Walmart
(Parts 4 and 5 are still in progress and editing) Today I stopped at Walmart to pick up some groceries. I don’t know for sure that they have a staffing…
Part 3 – Population Demographics: Honey, I shrunk the U.S. population
The U.S. fertility rate today is 1.78. A rate of 2.1 is needed to maintain the population at its current size. The U.S. population continues to grow because of immigration.…
Energy disaster in Europe may last a decade
The next “5 to 10 winters will be difficult,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo warned on Monday as energy prices in Europe soared to new records. Source: 10 ‘Difficult’…