Robert W. Patterson
This article was first published June 14, 2011, at WashingtonExaminer.com.
Since President Obama moved into the White House, the unemployment picture has gone from bad to worse. Unless things turn around, 2011 may be the third consecutive year with unemployment exceeding 9 percent, a first since the Labor Department began tracking the stat in 1948. Read more…
Often good comes from the bad. Case in point:
Sure, divorcing in tough economic times might involve the use of a Taser, but according to fresh data released on Friday from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the divorce rate is at its lowest point since the early 1970s. And infidelity has continued to decline. Read more…
by Joshua Mercer
We all know of the Demographic Winter in Europe and Japan. Let’s not repeat that here, folks.
From the AP:
The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century. Read more…
Time to start having kids, China. If you still can.
Michael Cook, Mercatornet.com
China’s rapid economic development and America’s evident vulnerabilty after the Global Financial Crisis could make the Chinese a bit smug. But as leading demographer Nicholas Eberstadt points out in a frightening article in the Far Eastern Economic Review, China faces gigantic economic problems as the legacy of its one-child policy. Read more…
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