In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

Research published in the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications finds that just in the United States, trillions of dollars are wasted on things that do not improve the quality of life ...

Emily Klancher Merchant is affiliated with the Population Association of America. Win Brown is affiliated with the Population Association of America. In the face of shrinking populations, many of the ...

The Institute for Social Transformation organized a recent statewide gathering that brought together partners from the ...

Systemic problems like inequality are not unchanging items that await our attention; they are dynamic and self-reinforcing, and in refusing to recognize that inequality had the potential to bring down ...

Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social problems ...

Business leaders have a new mandate: focus on core audiences and the issues that matter most to their companies, and help to solve social problems. Daryl Brewster, CEO of Chief Executives For ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Shulman provides expertise on entrepreneurial wealth creation. The September job report came in hot. It indicated 254,000 new ...