It’s pretty painful when your local elementary school or middle school shuts down, forcing your child to change schools and maybe travel much farther away. This is increasingly the norm these days thanks to two related phenomena: the baby bust that began in 2008 and the 2020-2021 COVID-related school closures.
I am a middle-aged man. For most of my life, the United States's working-age population, as characterized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has grown at an annual rate of about 1% or more. That means that over any given five-year stretch, the working-age population (15 to 64) has grown by more than 5%.
Also coming up, from baby boom to baby bust. why a shrinking population could pose a major economic problem for europe. plus, golden boots. europe s wealthiest football league season kicks off later. with wages and transfer fees continuing to soar, are the premier league s finances getting out of control? hello and welcome to bbc news. we start here in the uk, where figures out shortly are expected to confirm the british economy continues to stagnate. economic growth for the three months to the end ofjune is predicted to be close to zero. coming on top of gdp growth ofjust 0.1% we saw in the first quarter of this year it would mean an economy
Also coming up, from baby boom to baby bust. why a shrinking population could pose a major economic problem for europe. plus, golden boots. europe s wealthiest football league season kicks off later. with wages and transfer fees continuing to soar, are the premier league s finances getting out of control? hello and welcome to bbc news. we start here in the uk, where figures out shortly are expected to confirm the british economy continues to stagnate. economic growth for the three months to the end ofjune is predicted to be close to zero. coming on top of gdp growth ofjust 0.1% we saw in the first quarter of this year it would mean an economy