America is refusing to do the one simple thing that would solve the Great People Shortage

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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The US needs more workers or it will face serious economic chaos. There's a clear fix: more immigration.

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Two simple words: more immigrants

America needs more workers. 

China's so desperate to boost its birth rates, it's even cracking down on customary betrothal gifts for brides to help people get married more easily

Tech Insider : Economy
A bride dressed in a traditional Chinese wedding dress and a groom pose for pictures with the corner tower of the Forbidden City in the background in Beijing, China.
China's trying hard to boost marriages and a flagging birth rate.

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China's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Flag map of China shrinking on blue grainy background
China will lose half its population by the end of the century. The population decline is a warning for the US and Europe.

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The country's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world

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