Our school buildings are being neglected just like our bridges. In 1995, a report found that it would take $ 112 billion to repair America’s school buildings. Today, a new report estimates that that amount has more than doubled, and it would take $ 270 billion to repair school buildings, bringing them back to their… Read more »
Posts Tagged: aging
Chart of the Week: The Impact of an Aging America
Sequestration has taken effect, and yet government spending continues growing. Sequestration’s 2.4 percent reductions are not enough to fix Washington’s spending and debt problem because they do nothing to reform entitlement programs, whose costs will grow rapidly with America’s aging population. As more Americans age and retire, more Americans will begin collecting benefits from Social… Read more »
How the aging of America is hurting the Republican Party
The Claremont Review recently hosted a spirited forum on the future of the Republican Party. The closing argument from William Voegeli, a senior editor at the Review, is particularly worth considering, as it speaks unusually clearly to a key tension in the Republican coalition. The Republican Party already has a substantively admirable agenda that, if… Read more »
More Bad News for Generations X, Y and Z… It Looks Like You’re Stuck With an Aging Infrastructure, Too
Was the Greatest Generation followed by the Worst Generation? It sure looks that way. John Kerry and Jane Fonda lead a rally against the United States military in the 1970′s. As if Generations X, Y and Z did not have enough problems to deal with, the aging transportation infrastructure is also a major concern. American… Read more »