A Sneak Peak At 2030
We recently came across a great demographic book, The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny by Bradley Schurman that dives into the demographic quagmire society will find itself in over…
Demographics and the Tough Choices Ahead To 2030
We’ve written a great deal about how 60+ million baby boomer retiring over the next decade are going to drain the labor force of productivity but what does that mean…
Teen Truck Drivers? What Happened To Self-Driving Trucks?
The Mercury News is reporting that a new rule will allow teens as young as 18 years old to drive big semi trucks across state lines. With the trucking industry…
BLS Job Projections Make No Sense
We were perusing BLS website and came across Projected Opening in Occupations That Require A College Degree and were intrigued by the projections but one key thing left us confused.…
Germany’s Demographic Problem
A very good article from Reuters via Yahoo Finance about Germany’s ongoing demographic problem worthy of a read in its entirety. Germany’s new coalition government wants to attract 400,000 qualified…
China’s Demographic Problem
We’ve covered the American demographic problem here in various posts on this blog but the United States isn’t the only country with a demographic problem. According to this article, China’s…
Health Care Deserts and Higher Costs
The Texas Tribune is reporting on how ‘maternity deserts’ are popping up all over rural Texas and the cause isn’t covid but that certainly helped accelerate the problem. Declining populations…
What Can Search Words Tell Us? Google Trends
It is January 2022 and we are trying to figure out where we go from here. To find some clues, we took a look at some key words in google…
Another Nursing Home Files For Bankruptcy
Last week in The Labor Battle Intensifies: Healthcare vs Retail, we wrote about how QHC filed for bankruptcy citing severe labor shortage as the main cause. This week Eagle Senior…
Wage Inflation Powers on in 2022
Goldman Sachs CEO had something interesting to say recently and if this firm is having trouble retaining people then what do you think that says about hiring across America? Goldman…