In every single region of the world, economic growth has failed to return to the rate it averaged before the Great Recession. Economists have come up with a variety of theories for why this recovery ...

Slower growth in the working-age population is a problem in much of the country. Could targeted immigration policy help solve it? By Neil Irwin For many years, American economists have spoken of Japan ...

The report summarizes existing knowledge about the economic and fiscal impacts of immigration since the National Academies' 1997 report, The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of ...

IT IS HARD to keep up with the protest movements under way around the world. Large anti-government demonstrations, some peaceful, some not, have in recent weeks clogged roads on every continent: ...

NEW YORK - Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she'd have two children. But the layoffs that swept over the U.S. economy around the time her son ...

The idea that the world economy is undergoing a demographic transition is now so familiar that it barely even registers. The point is noted; the conversation moves on. This is a mistake. It's ...

The past two decades has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the health and well-being of the older population. The workshop looked at these recent trends and set the stage for the next ...