A new demographic reality is coming
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
As birthrates fall and baby boomers grow older, the demographic makeup of the United States is set to drastically change in the next decade. We’ll talk about what that could mean for the modern economy. And we’ll discuss the logistics of the 14th Amendment and the budding idea that it could bar former President Donald Trump from participating in next year’s election. Plus, a step forward for women’s sports in Spain.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “I Can’t Keep Trump Off the Ballot” from The Wall Street Journal
- “A clause in the Constitution may disqualify Trump from returning to the White House?” from NPR
- “Trump 14th amendment debate more extensive than realized, election chief says” from Politico
- “Opinion | America’s Seniors and the Challenges of Old Age” from The New York Times
- “The Fastest 60-Year-Old Woman on Earth Is Only Getting Faster” from Outside Online
- “‘The Boy And The Heron’ Trailer Is A Look At Hayao Miyazaki’s First Film In 10 Years” from HuffPost
- “The Golden Bachelor: Everything to Know About the Bachelor Spinoff” from People
- “Jorge Vilda, Coach of Spain’s Women’s Soccer Team, Is Fired” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to do what we always do most days of the week on this podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | We'll do some news. |
| 0:25.6 | We'll do a little bit of smiles. |
| 0:27.4 | And then we will get on our merry way. |
| 0:30.3 | Let us begin. |
| 0:31.3 | Ms. Adams, you get to go first. |
| 0:33.3 | My news item is this big thing in the New York Times. |
| 0:36.8 | Huge interactive by the New York Times editorial board. |
| 0:39.8 | A bunch of stories together about how America is aging. |
| 0:44.5 | And you and I have talked about this quite a bit about how woefully unprepared we are for |
| 0:50.7 | the aging of our country and the economy is not ready for it. |
| 0:54.6 | The healthcare system is not ready for it. |
| 0:56.9 | Other people are not ready for it. |
| 0:58.5 | Certainly the workforce is not ready. |
| 1:00.0 | We don't have the housing. |
| 1:01.6 | And so the New York Times has a bunch of pieces looking at different components of it. |
| 1:07.2 | What it means for our infrastructure, like sidewalks and street crosswalks and even how |
| 1:16.0 | the lighting and paint on highways and things like that as more and more of the population |
| 1:21.0 | are older. |
| 1:22.0 | Obviously, there's a discussion of healthcare. |
| 1:24.7 | There was a really interesting data point in this sort of opening piece of this. |
| 1:32.0 | Let me see if I can find it. |
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