Population Next
Bradley SchurmanPopulation Next is a podcast and newsletter from Bradley Schurman examining the future of people, places, and prosperity—tracking how demographic change, artificial intelligence, and climate pressures are redrawing the map.
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Immigrants vanish from the workforce, scientists retire apocalypse scenario, the Take Down Act becomes law — and more
Demographic Change
1. Immigration’s Vanishing Role in the American Workforce
New data released this week by both the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Indeed’s Hiring Lab documents just how dramatically immigration has receded as...
Baby bust has two drivers, global wildfires at record highs, White House 180 on AI — and more
DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
1. The Baby Bust Has Two Drivers — And One of Them Surprises Researchers
A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta breaks fresh ground on why American birth rates keep falling. Using decades of d...
What a City Looks Like Before It Turns Around
Earlier this year, I took the train from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi. It was a deliberate choice — the kind of ground-level arrival that strips away the abstractions of data and forces you to see a place as it actually is. I had come as...
American men vanishing from the workforce, New Orleans at "point of no return," Trump pivots to AI oversight — and more
Demographic Change
American Men Are Vanishing From the Workforce
New Labor Department data released this week shows that one in three American men was out of the workforce in April 2026 — the lowest male labor force participatio...
Ann Arbor Is Building the Future Without Forgetting Its Foundation
Last week, Jaymes Cloninger — my collaborator and the co-creator of the Geography of Prosperity Index — and I flew to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to spend time in a city that our research keeps pointing toward as one of the most promising urban ar...
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Bradley Schurman is the author of The Super Age (HarperCollins) and the forthcoming The Geography of Prosperity (MIT Press). Founder & CEO of Human Change and host of the Population Next podcast, Bradley advises organizations on the intersection of p
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