Education, demographics: Even graduate degree programs are flat topping
With nearly half of Master degrees having a negative ROI, university grad programs are about to get hit hard, particularly due to the smaller young population.
Demographics: Gen Z entering work force at “perfect time”
Low unemployment, labor shortages, low fertility rates - best time ever to be starting careers.
Demographics: University of Memphis enrollment decline
The fertility rate collapse is starting to show up in college admissions, as expected.
Demographics, Economy: Impact of falling U.S. birth rates
America’s shrinking population: Economic impact of falling U.S. birth rate (cnbc.com)
Economy: Are American retirement prospects really worse than ever?
In spite of media doomerism, American's prospects for retirement have held pretty steady for a long time.
Demographics: Why did the native American population double over ten years?
According to the 2020 Census, Americans who identify as having Indigenous or Native American heritage increased from 5.2 million in 2010 to 9.6 million in 2020. Yet, despite this 85…
Demographics: No one rides a bike to school anymore
As kids, we rode our bikes to school – and everywhere else. I continued to ride to college and my work, all the way up to about age 30 (then…
Demographics, Economy: Gen Z doing better than media doomerism implies
Gen Z income doing better than prior generations, contrary to the constant doom and gloom in the media.
Demographics: Smaller families
Everyone blames current economic scenarios for the fertility rate decline - but the decline has been underway for a century.