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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A new report from the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) shows that substantial demographic changes in Ireland are ...