Think taxes don’t matter when people choose where to live? The figures say otherwise.
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Taxpayers Voting With Their Feet
Tag Archives: Population
Abe Hits On A Solution
Japan’s prime minister may have hit on the best solution to keep his country from slipping into a doddering old age.
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China’s Population Reform Is Too Little, Too Late
China’s rulers set a demographic time bomb 35 years ago that is now exploding in their faces.
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We’re Number Three (And Four)
Census figures tell a story of one state on the way up, and one that doesn’t seem to know it’s on the way down.
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What Ails Vermont?
Why is scenic, rural Vermont suffering what its governor calls an epidemic of opiate use and a bad case of hopelessness?
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Awaiting China’s ‘Perestroika’
China’s liberalized rules on family planning and pretrial detention are progress, but not a Gorbachev-style perestroika.
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Distinguishing A Baby Bust From A Sex Drought
A much-discussed article questions whether Japan’s government policy is turning off its citizens’ sex drive.
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A Million Missing Babies
Are we pricing the cost of child-rearing out of our own reach? Last year, a million missing babies told us we are.
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As The Birth Rate Falls, The Sky Doesn’t
Our economy and well-being need not decline merely because of an aging and potentially shrinking population.
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