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 ...

An economist-turned-CEO spoke at a webinar on global demographic changes at Georgetown University Feb. 7. Wolfgang Fengler, the CEO of World Data Lab, a company focused on creating large data models ...

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 ...

The economic impact of changes in population growth rates and age structure can dramatically shift as countries transition from high to low rates of mortality and fertility. Initially, mortality ...

University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan has been closely watching the spate of higher education closures, and said in an interview over the weekend that UMass has a strategy he hopes will ...

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 ...

The first cause for concern is changes to federally backed college loan programs made under President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

Discover the significance of the working-age population, typically aged 15-64, in shaping economic outcomes and employment ...

Back in 2019, we seemed on a consistent path to the future. Then COVID-19 arrived on the global scene, and all predictions went out the window. As 2024 begins, everyone wants to know what the year ...

The forces that shaped Washington during the dynamic past decade have changed the demographic makeup of the state, particularly of its Asian communities, new Census Bureau data shows. Large numbers of ...

According to newly released U.S. Census data, the city of Plano experienced significant demographic changes over the past five years, with its population becoming notably more diverse. On Dec. 12, the ...