For cities, having a declining population usually means socioeconomic and infrastructure challenges to accommodate the remaining population. Using population projections, we found that, by 2100, close to half of the nearly 30,000 cities in the United States will face some sort of population decline...
US JEWISH POPULATION SEEN DECLININGMichael Paulson
Butterflies, known for their beauty and vital role in pollination, arevanishing from U.S. landscapesat an alarming rate. A comprehensivestudy, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that 22% of butterflies in the United States disappeared between 2000 and 2020. The new researchoffers a...
NHANES is a program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of the general population in the United States. The survey uses a complex multistage sampling design to obtain representative samples of the non-institutionalized US population (Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
"They have chronic health needs, declining mental health, and so many are on fixed incomes," she said. "There is a severe lack of housing for them, and we must turn this around to address the silver tsunami of the homeless." The National Health Care for the Homeless Council estimates th...
Two countries facing this demographic dilemma, the United States and China, are competing to be the world’s leading economic superpower. Both face declining fertility rates. While the U.S. has historically welcomed immigrants and has built a strong sector of the economy on their labor, China...
Brownsville, city, seat (1848) of Cameron county, extreme southern Texas, U.S. It lies along the Rio Grande opposite Matamoros, Mexico, 22 miles (35 km) from the river’s mouth. With Harlingen and San Benito it forms an industrial, agribusiness, and port complex. On March 28, 1846, ...
The United States is not unique in its productivity challenges with declining productivity growth observed across G7 nations since 2005 (exhibit). The United States starts from a position of strength, being the most productive nation among the G7 in 2019. This has not always been the case: th...
The population on the mainland however is likely to be declining due to habitat loss, and especially deforestation. Hebius vibakari is present around ponds and riverine zones in forested areas, where it feeds on small fish, amphibians, amphibian larvae and worms (NIBR, 2011; Song, 2007). ...
The jobless rate ticked up, the labor force participation rate dipped, the employment-to-population ratio fell, average workweek hours dropped, the number of part-time workers for economic reasons increased and the number of multiple jobholders was on the rise. “It does suggest to me that s...