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China’s top lawmakers set to raise retirement age to handle shrinking workforce born of collapsing birthrate
Finance

China’s top lawmakers set to raise retirement age to handle shrinking workforce born of collapsing birthrate

By Foster Wong, Josh Xiao and Bloomberg
September 11, 2024
student stands in front of school
Success

More colleges are eliminating degree programs—and the cuts are just getting started

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press
August 11, 2024
Elderly Chinese people sit together at a park
Finance

U.S. economic growth will eclipse China’s by 2031, and the transformation Beijing needs for a revival may take ‘several decades, if not longer,’ top demographer says

By
May 27, 2024
a sign in a cemetery points to a crematorium
Finance

Private-equity-backed firm buys up crematoriums and funeral homes to cash in on Europe’s aging population. ‘It’s an infrastructure play’

By Verena Sepp, Eyk Henning and Bloomberg
May 18, 2024
San Francisco
Politics

California’s population just increased for the first time since the pandemic

By Maxwell Adler and Bloomberg
April 30, 2024
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.
Finance

Larry Fink says Gen Z, millennials distrust boomers on the economy—they’re totally right on one key issue

By
March 26, 2024
Elon Musk
Tech

Top labor economist says don’t believe the AI doom narrative—and his reason why is the ‘underpopulation crisis’ Elon Musk talks about

By
February 12, 2024
Miami’s status as the favorite American city for the ultrawealthy is pushing out its middle class—and everyone else
Success

Miami’s status as the favorite American city for the ultrawealthy is pushing out its middle class—and everyone else

By
August 2, 2023
Mateusz Morawiecki

Poland’s demographic crisis is so bad that its birth rate just dropped to the lowest level since World War II

By Krzysztof Kropidlowski and Bloomberg
July 31, 2023
A group of people taking a selfie
Success

Pew Research Center is tired of blaming Gen Z and millennials for everything—it’s retiring the whole concept of generational framing

By
June 17, 2023
Celina Chanthanouvong
Success

A 25-year-old with $25,000 of student debt is giving up on her dreams of a family: ‘It would be financially irresponsible for us to bring a human being into this world’

By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
June 7, 2023
Society’s refusal to have enough babies is what will save it from the existential threat of A.I., Eric Schmidt says
Tech

Society’s refusal to have enough babies is what will save it from the existential threat of A.I., Eric Schmidt says

By
May 24, 2023
New Delhi, India
Environment

When will India have a bigger population than China? Maybe while you’re reading this.

By Mike Schneider, Sibi Arasu and The Associated Press
April 10, 2023
Photo of a mother and child.
Success

The world’s baby shortfall is so bad that the labor shortage will last for years, major employment firms predict

By
November 17, 2022
Russia’s population is in a historic decline as emigration, war and a plunging birth rate form a ‘perfect storm’
Politics

Russia’s population is in a historic decline as emigration, war and a plunging birth rate form a ‘perfect storm’

By
October 18, 2022

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