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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You're invited, Index goes global, labor market refuses to break, cities heating fast, AI policy becomes industrial strategy — and more
You’re invited to the first Geography of Prosperity Maproom
Thursday, June 18 · 12:00 PM EDT
Join me for an informal conversation about the Geography of Prosperity Index and my forthcoming book, The Geography of Prosperity: A New...
The Fountains Come Back On
Just in time for summer, water is flowing again from some of Washington’s most recognizable fountains — basins that residents and visitors had spent years walking past as dry stone behind construction fencing. For the first time sinc...
Immigration is the story of population growth, wildfire smoke erasing gains, overriding states on AI — and more
👥 Demographic Change
Immigration Is Now the Whole Story of U.S. Population Growth
Recent federal projections continue to land on the same conclusion: net immigration has become the engine of nearly all U.S. population growth,...
The Cold-Calling Mayor
Most big-city mayors don’t cold-call companies. There’s no need to. The big cities like New York and Chicago have inbound demand, site selectors who already know the address, and a gravity that does the work for them. Corey O’...
Birthrate decline not a catastrophe, the next five years will break records, AGI by 2029 — and more
DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
The Birth-Rate Debate Gets a Reframe: Maybe It Isn’t a Catastrophe
As the U.S. fertility rate sits at a record low, a piece from Marketplace this week pushed back on the reflexive alarm. Last year, the U.S. f...
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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 author of the Population Next newsletter.
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