Education, Demographics: USA Today ignores the elephant in the room
USA Today says CT schools laying off staff due to end of Covid funding - Reality: CT schools have declining enrollment, has closed 75 schools past ten years.
Demographics: If a fertility rate decline is a problem, we should adopt global communism (says expert)
The solution is global government regulation and "redistribution", say experts.
Labor: Union workers are not the political force they once were
Unionized workers are about 10% of the US workforce today, down from about 20% 40 years ago. Nearly 40% of union workers, work for governments.
Demographics: Global fertility rate visualization
Except for mostly, central Africa, the world's countries are on a shrinking population trajectory.
Demographics: Government subsidy programs do not increase fertility rates
Why fertility rates have collapsed and why government programs have failed to move the needle.
Demographics: Number of immigrants needed to maintain constant working age population to 2050
The U.S. needs about 1.4 million immigrants per year through 2050 to maintain the working age population.
Education: The Demographics of college enrollment
College enrollment is declining, and the majority of that decline is men not enrolling in college. We are almost to 60% F:40% M enrollment ratio.
Education, Finance: Sensible people didn’t go to expensive universities
It is possible to go to college and not carry a huge debt, but it requires making compromises - and hard work.
Demographics: More work hours or more immigration
True, kind of. But not enough skilled workers willing to move elsewhere. Instead, we are going to see a LOT of automation.
Demographics, Education: College enrollments to start dropping faster in 2025
The number of kids born from the 2008 Great Recession onward began a sharp fall off. That cohort is set to start college in the next few years: College enrollment…