The American population is going to start shrinking soon.
Source: U.S. had its slowest population growth rate in a century | PBS NewsHour
Tag Archives: demographics
not just opioids
And booze is (more or less) completely legal!
Source: The number of Americans drinking themselves to death has more than doubled – MarketWatch
staying put
Less than 10 percent of Americans moved for work in 2018-19, in part because job skills are less interchangeable.
Source: The share of Americans relocating hit a new low – Axios
drug use follows economic hardship
I’m willing to bet the same can be said of other drug use in other areas following a decline in business investment, massive job losses and other problems.
well what’s *your* idea
There’s a big crisis in housing as lawmakers try to free up areas for multi-family units and entrenched homeowners and conservatives seek to keep them out.
Source: Ibraheem Samirah’s Virginia zoning reform ends single-family zoning – Vox
social, mobile and more in the 2010s
Great roundup of some key stats from Pew.
Source: Key ways the U.S. changed in the 2010s | Pew Research Center
tech jobs for just a few
This despite the promise that internet connectivity would turn every city into a tech hub.
Source: The case for growth centers: How to spread tech innovation across America
generations staying put
The reasons are varied but they all come back to not having the financial freedom to move for personal or work-related reasons.
Source: Why Americans have stopped moving geographically, even for work — Quartz
selling other cultures to white kids
All while society minimalizes the cultural contributions of those non-white demographic groups.
Source: Lauren Jackson’s White Negroes: A witty, nuanced take on cultural appropriation – Vox
keeping men out of work
The job market sucks for men in their prime earning years.
Source: Despite The Job Boom, More Men Are Giving Up On Work : NPR
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