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AsiaTokyo is turning to a 4-day workweek in a desperate attempt to help Japan shed its unwanted title of ‘world’s oldest population’
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezNovember 4, 2025
SuccessBillionaire boss of South Korean construction giant is encouraging his workers to have children with a $75,000 bonus
By Orianna Rosa RoyleOctober 16, 2025
North AmericaTrump says he wants a ‘baby boom,’ but the CBO sees deaths surpassing births in 2031 and a 320,000 hole in the population from deportations
By Stephen Groves and The Associated PressSeptember 10, 2025
SuccessThis is the number of babies each woman needs to have to avoid human extinction—and the U.S. is nowhere close
By Beth GreenfieldMay 2, 2025
NewslettersTokyo’s making a huge bet on the 4-day workweek and it’s about more than just flexible scheduling
By Azure Gilman and Emma BurleighDecember 10, 2024
LifestyleRussia is speeding into a demographic crisis with a 25-year-low birth rate as the Ukraine war rages on
By Prarthana PrakashDecember 6, 2024
HealthFlorida moms abruptly lost postpartum health coverage due to a Deloitte-run Medicaid computer system ‘glitch’
By Daniel Chang, Samantha Liss and KFF Health NewsNovember 26, 2024
FinanceElon Musk is secretly buying properties reportedly so his children and their mothers can all live together
By Alena BotrosOctober 29, 2024
PoliticsWorld’s richest man Elon Musk says people should relax about the costs and just have kids: ‘It’ll work out’
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezOctober 22, 2024
FinanceEurope’s population crisis could shave 4% off its GDP by 2040, Morgan Stanley warns, and the options to solve it aren’t good
By Ryan HoggOctober 14, 2024
PoliticsGreece spends €1 billion a year on pro-child policies as dwindling birth rates create new headaches for the country
By Prarthana PrakashSeptember 16, 2024
FinanceChina’s top lawmakers set to raise retirement age to handle shrinking workforce born of collapsing birthrate
By Foster Wong, Josh Xiao and BloombergSeptember 11, 2024
