Post Continues Effort to Promote Generational Conflict

The Post ran an article highlighting new data from the Census Bureau showing that the number of white people who died last year exceeded the number who were born. It concludes the piece by citing William Frey, a demographer at Brookings:


"the natural decrease in whites suggests that aging whites will increasingly come to rely on the younger, mainly minority population to underwrite social programs that will sustain them."


While this is true of social programs like Social Security and Medicare...

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Published on June 13, 2013 02:36
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