Justin Fox

Recent immigrants also match or outperform earlier generations in noneconomic integration metrics.

“Assimilate or go home,” read the sign at Sen. Tommy Tuberville's side as he held forth on the Senate floor last month about the proposed American System for Sustainable Immigration and Mass Immigration Limitations Achieved Through Imposing Oversight Nationally Act that he and Rep. Andy Ogles were about to introduce (yes, that works out to ASSIMILATION). Tuberville of Alabama and Ogles of Tennessee are both media personalities more than Republican legislators and there's little chance of their bill becoming law, which would sharply reduce legal immigration and require would-be immigrants to be proficient in English before they arrive. But one thing Tuberville said at least merits........

Enrollment in US public schools fell sharply during the Covid-19 pandemic as the shift to remote classes and all-around disruption of everyday life led some families to opt for homeschooling or in-person private schools and some to give up on schooling altogether. Public schools managed to stabilize their numbers after that, with enrollment rising slightly in the 2022–2023 academic year. But now they’re facing a longer-term problem — a lack of children. The number of annual births in the US is d

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At America’s colleges and universities, generative artificial intelligence is bringing on something of an existential crisis. Large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude “promise productivity while subverting the process of grappling with ideas, and with overuse they weaken the very muscles necessary to use them responsibly,” a University of Chicago chemistry professor wrote after his employer concluded a deal this month to provide Claude Enterprise to all students and fac

Americans who can remember the nation’s bicentennial celebrations in 1976 are mostly unimpressed with the semiquincentennial.

The 2020 US Census experienced a sharp rise in the number and share of Americans who identified as being of two or more races, a development chalked up partly to demographic change and partly to changes in how the questionnaire was worded and answers tabulated. There were 33.8 million such people in 2020 — 10.2% of the population — up from 9 million and 2.9% in 2010. An additional 27.9 million, 8.4% of the population, identified as being solely of “some other race” than the ones listed on the Ce

The 2020 U.S. Census experienced a sharp rise in the number and share of Americans who identified as being of two or more races, a development

Labor force participation in the US, when adjusted for the age structure of the population, has never been higher than over the past two years. So why all the concern lately about how low it is? The simple answer is that age-adjusted labor force participation is not a statistic on offer from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the unadjusted rate is currently the lowest it has been — Covid-19 pandemic excluded — in 50 years.