Opinion: Practicing Factfulness, Sometimes satire and parody.
With a fun propaganda campaign, Indianapolis is seeing school closures due to declining enrollments – they call the closures “Rebuilding Stronger”… which is a funny propaganda message: Seven schools will…
Russia’s population has been dropping for years. With Putin’s war underway, skilled workers are fleeing Russia, and now with his draft, younger men are also fleeing. Those that don’t stand…
Meta, parent of FB and IG, is putting some workers on a “30 day list” during which they can try to find another job in the company, or they are…
The fertility rate in Alaska is 1.8 and has been steadily dropping for years. There are 18 Anchorage schools with a student body that is 65% of capacity or lower.…
Tonight, Microsoft showed me a LinkedIn ad for a position. I clicked through to read the description. Below that, they had photos of people working at Microsoft, with a link…
Christians could fall below 50% of the U.S. population by 2070 if recent trends continue. Source: America’s Christian majority could end by 2070 Much of this change is because many…
Interesting discussion – most people think “retirement” is somewhere from age 62 to 68 and few would say age 70. But the author makes a good point here: Social Security’s…
The U.S. fertility rate has been collapsing since 1800. The "baby boom" was a self-correcting anomaly. The impact of this is perhaps one of the most important issues facing humanity…
The linked article below notes the problem and is optimistic we can embrace necessary changes to accommodate this demographic time bomb. Our population is aging faster than at any other…
Here’s another view of the U.S. population pyramid, this one in 5-year buckets. This makes the labor shortage issues even more obvious in regard to the supply of “new workers”…