Demographics: The end of “everyone needs to go to college”?
The labor shortage is a long-term trend, not a short-term problem. This shortage is caused by smaller cohorts of new young workers due to the collapse of the fertility rate.…
Demographics: Less demand for college degrees
‘Instead of focusing on demonstrated competence, the focus too often has been on a piece of paper,’ Utah governor stated Source: Utah axes degree requirement for 98% of civil servant…
Demographics: Oregon’s population shrinks
Oregon’s population dropped in 2022 for the first time in decades, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The agency figures Oregon lost about 16,000 residents in the…
Demographics, Automation: McDonald’s adds more automation to new restaurant form factor concept
The fast-food giant is trying an idea that Starbucks has already been successful with. Source: McDonald’s Launches a Whole New Kind of Restaurant – TheStreet As previously stated here, the…
Demographics, Business, Automation: “Krispy Kreme Outlines Plans to Automate Doughnut Production”
This is how businesses will address the long-term labor shortage: The doughnut maker plans to save $2 million annually by reducing manual labor in some of its shops, its finance…
Demographics, International: Indians taking on many leadership roles in U.S. businesses
India has 5 times more people in the critical 20-29 age bracket. Stated another way, the top 20% of the young Indian cohort is the same size as that entire…
More good news: life expectancy up, poverty way down, literacy widespread
Am expecting this blog to be censored and thrown offline very soon. Passing along good news is forbidden. The estimated decline at the end is due to Covid pandemic.
Education, Demographics: Some colleges now cutting tuition
The increasing size of each new generation, and a push for ever more to attend schooling enabled colleges to continuously raise tuition and fees. With the fertility rate collapse and…
Demographics: What Languages Do We Speak in the United States?
The number of people who spoke a language other than English at home nearly tripled from 1980 to 2019, but the number who spoke only English also increased. Source: What…
Demographics: Fertility rate decline and impact on state budgets
Process efficiency improvements and automation are essential to addressing this, but will states embrace real solutions? When the economy takes a downward turn, couples often temporarily put off having children.1…