The US workforce has undergone a profound demographic transition in recent decades: it has aged significantly, and the share of workers with a college education has steadily risen. This blog post ...

The dynamics of family structure is undergoing a transformation. Declining fertility and mortality rates are leading to new kinship configurations worldwide. But how quickly are changes taking place?

Two seemingly unrelated demographic trends are sending powerful warning signals to capital markets: emptying high-school classrooms and millions of unused bedrooms. These parallel developments ...

You may have heard the phrase ‘demographic cliff’ tossed around recently. The phrase inspires fear — a fall from a precipice, a steep drop or a tumble downwards. It could imply a stark reduction and ...

Recently, I had the privilege of discussing bitcoin’s performance on a podcast, and naturally, the conversation expanded to a broader issue: the evolving landscape of retirement. In particular, ...

The South has been the driving force for United States population growth in recent years – in 2023 for example, the region accounted for 87% of the nation's population growth, according to the U.S.

It’s always possible the polls are all wrong and either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris is on the brink of a decisive victory on November 5. For one thing, it’s close enough in the seven battleground ...

Josiah Kephart, faculty member at the Urban Health Collaborative (UHC) and Usama Bilal, Co-Director of the UHC, have recently published a dual commentary in Nature Medicine. The article, Disentangling ...

Mildred Thompson introduced the session described in this chapter by talking about why this Institute of Medicine workshop was held in California. In considering the issue of changing demographics, ...