Baby boomer effect
 

The baby boomers are retiring. We are soon to lack people not jobs. Unemployment is at a many decade low and the work force participation rate is also at a many decade low.

Obama, Trump or whoever is to come is going to have a different economic puzzle to solve.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-...icipation-rate You can change the timeline to get a better idea.

McConnell said yesterday that he wants to cut back social security, Medicare and Medicaid to pay for the massive tax cuts that he gave the 1%.

Mitch McConnell says it out loud: Republicans are gunning for Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare next

no worries 4000 hondurans are arriving :thumbsup

Good they can work for cheap in the retirement homes :thumbsup

We probably need them.

Work? Hahaha they’re not coming here to work.

The immigrants laugh at the donkey taxpayer in order to support them. I'm tired of them freeloading off my back.

Even if America is filled with Hondurans, Guatamalans, sub-Saharan Africans, Southeast Asians, America can STILL be America.

Your culture is NOT locked in your GENES

America is a melting pot that transformed the Irish, the Welsh, Italians, Eastern Europeans, Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Sikhs, Buddhists, Quakers into....
AMERICANS

It can do the same (it's already doing so) for Armenians, Persians, Filipinos, Jamaicans, Dominicans, Nigerians, Chinese, South Koreans, MUSLIMS, etc etc.

America, regardless of its color, eye shape, or religion, will REMAIN AMERICA.

Focus on the INSTITUTIONS and you'll be fine.

That's why as an American living overseas believe in the CONSTITUTION. That's what defines AMERICA!

Anything else is GENETIC DETERMINISM

I don't want to have two wives :( . . .

Don't believe the clap trap that is put out there. The US population is growing steadily and there should be no shortage of labour.

https://www.census-charts.com/Popula...-1790-2000.png

In fact with more jobs being lost to automation the opposite will be true. Except for companies that can employ cheap labour or those who want high skilled and not prepared to train them.

That is the weirdest thing. Any facts for that? I know California is one of the last states with welfare as we used to think of it but is it even a thing as a percent a population?

Most states froze the welfare benefit decades ago. They then moved long term recipients to SSI. I have owned low income housing for decades. Very few actual welfare recipients.

Califórnia - Is California the welfare capital? - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Your numbers are two decades old.

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthie...urban-counties

2.1 is needed to break even. Immigration is the other source and we have stopped that big time.

Yes.. retirement homes needs to hire Spanish speaking only and people from Hattie.. That would be great irony..

Kind of funny how this demographic shift is the biggest thing since popcorn and very few people are talking about how to take advantage of it.

More recent numbers. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-...MEQzmd6BAgGEAc

U.S. Population (2018) - Worldometers

Where are the job shortages?