It's a story with massive economic and political significance. But it's receiving strangely little attention.
Posted by TrixoftheTrade
It's a story with massive economic and political significance. But it's receiving strangely little attention.
Posted by TrixoftheTrade
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My Instagram page is a bunch of progressives cheering this on.
Not sure people realize the problems this will cause
I can’t believe Trump is destroying one of the things that was supposed to keep us competitive this century. Immigration is what this country is great at. This man has done so much to hurt our country, and I honestly don’t know if we’ll ever recover.
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“For nearly 250 years, America has only known growth. According to our best estimates, the nation’s population expanded throughout the Civil War, despite the deaths of more than 700,000 Americans. It grew throughout the Spanish Flu, both World Wars, and countless bloody entanglements with other countries. Even COVID, which killed more than a million Americans, didn’t reverse the trend. But Trump’s immigration crackdown may accomplish what no war, plague, or calamity has ever done.
“It’s certainly possible,” said William Frey, a renowned demographer and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “My bet at the beginning of 2025 was that growth would be positive but very slow. But it’s certainly possible that the population could shrink this year.”
Frey’s own projections had put the first years of shrinking America somewhere in the 2080s, around my 100th birthday. If the fall began in the 2020s, it could mean pulling forward demographic decline by more than half a century.”
That’s one way to keep china competitive despite demographics I guess.
What’s made that happen?