A Gen Zer moved to Colorado from Texas because of its restrictive abortion laws. She said life is more expensive but the quality of life is worth it.

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Suzy Cubberley, 26, left Texas because she didn't agree with the state's restrictive abortion laws. She moved to Colorado, even though life is more expensive there.

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A child-free boomer doesn't regret her choice despite the social pressure. She has financial freedom and can spend the rest of her life giving back.

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Ann Snyder, 70, said she knew she never wanted children. Snyder said the decision gave her financial freedom and more time with her husband.

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More than half of child-free Americans under 50 who don't think they'll ever have kids say they just don't want them

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Fifty-seven percent of Americans under the age of 50 without kids said the main reason they won't have any is because they just don't want to.

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Baby boomers are approaching 'peak burden' on the economy

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  • The baby-boomer "time bomb" is finally upon us, economists say.
  • All boomers will be at least 65 soon, the generation's point of "peak burden" on the economy.
  • Future generations can take solace in the fact that no boomer-size generations are in the making.

A time bomb has been ticking in the US.

Beware: leaving a big city could be really bad for your career

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China faces a reckoning as disillusioned Gen Z and millennial workers refuse to save for retirement: report

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People walk along a business street in Beijing.

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The South is booming, beating out the West as the fastest-growing region in the country again last year

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Atlanta mansion with city skyline behind.

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The fastest-growing and fastest-shrinking cities in the US

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The metro area of Wildwood-The Villages in Florida saw the largest percent increase from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, among metros.

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The fastest-growing and shrinking counties in the US

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Some of the large counties with the highest percent population increases between 2022 and 2023 were in Texas.

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China's birth rate has fallen so much that many hospitals are simply giving up on delivering babies

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A newborn baby, whose Chinese zodiac sign is dragon, is seen with the mother at a hospital in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 10, 2024.
China's birth rate has continued to fall.

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