U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops

Areas and institutions that lean Democratic politically. Plus a few GOP areas with long-running demographic decline.

Are property taxes going down in those areas? How much does a house cost for a young working couple looking to start a family to move into?

> “People are choosing to raise kids somewhere other than in the city — moving to suburbs or places where they have access to affordable housing,” she said. “So it’s not just about losing students, it’s about the city of Portland losing families.”

All of the schools seem to be in metro areas where there are probably opportunities for consolidation.

> Even some affluent school districts that draw families because of high-performing schools, like in Palo Alto, Calif., and Montclair, N.J., have struggled to maintain enrollment.

The affluent in these places don't send their kids to public schools and Montclair public schools are in a gigantic financial scandal anyway.

Clamping down on immigration will go down as one of the greatest policy blunders in US history. The American people are about to find out the hard way that national economies are essentially pyramid schemes.

Because people don't want to have kids in a sad, unsafe, uncertain, unaffordable country without a safety net like universal healthcare that hollowed out the middle class and brought massive inequality by disastrous tax cuts and neoliberal policies.