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Paul Kennedy posits that continued deficit spending, especially on military build-up, is the single most important reason for decline of any great power. The costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were as of 2017 estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion, which Kennedy deems a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to humiliate America by showcasing its casualty ...
“The real story, arguably, is the decline in the share of population of the West … Its share of overall U.S. population has flattened, and now appears to be falling,” Bank of America said in ...
The long fall in unionization in the U.S. since WWII has seen a corresponding rise in the inequality of wealth and income. [138] A study by Kristal and Cohen reported that rising wage inequality was driven more by declining unions and the fall in the real value of the minimum wage, with twice as much impact as technology.
The Census Bureau was not projecting white population losses to occur until after 2024. This makes any national population growth even more reliant on other race and ethnic groups. The white demographic decline is largely attributable to its older age structure when compared to other race and ethnic groups.
America Talks is a unique opportunity to join thousands of Americans who refuse to give up on our country. America is in danger of falling apart. We need to act now before it's too late.
All eyes were on the US labor market, and the latest check-up shows its diagnosis was not as bleak as some feared: Job growth returned to solid form in August, and unemployment trended back down ...
America's infrastructure is desperately in need of investment, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers'. The ASCE estimates the US needs to spend some $4.5 trillion by 2025 to fix the ...
Citing America's dependence on foreign sources of energy and "crucial weaknesses" in the military, Tom Wicker concluded "that maintaining superpower status is becoming more difficult—nearly impossible—for the United States." [122] In 2004, Patrick Buchanan lamented "the decline and fall of the greatest industrial republic the world had ever ...