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Low birthrates are the main driver of the nation’s rising median age, experts said. “It’s simple arithmetic,” said Andrew A. Beveridge, president of Social Explorer, a demographic data firm. “Fewer…
But not in the way people were expecting: Climate change affects 53% of parents’ decision to have more kids (cnbc.com
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…
Colleges and universities across the U.S. are struggling with declines in student enrollment, but St. Cloud State University in central Minnesota has been hit harder than many others. Over the…
And it is all downhill after 2025: “Number one, it is the admission cliff, and that is the impending decline . We’ll be graduating our lowest high school classes by…
Here are the states where it’s costliest to give birth (axios.com) But that only applies to the U.S. – the fertility rate collapse is a global issue.
“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…
An America with less religion is an America that makes parenting harder Source: Millennial parents are having fewer babies, even in Utah — why? – Deseret News Okay. But this…
The U.S. population in 2020 was older and had fewer children under age 5 than in 2010 or 2000, according to the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC) data…
Baby bust: Italy faces a ‘demographic winter’ | Financial Times (ft.com) Notes that low birth rates in Europe and elsewhere are putting pressure on government pension, health care, credit ratings…