Demographer and Sociologist. Director of the Carolina Population Center. LEGO Karen
Karen Benjamin Guzzo
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Teamed up with the great @meganmesserly.bsky.social to bring you the untold story of how Trump's first term health officials convinced him to back an ambitious plan to end the HIV epidemic by 2030...and how the policies he embraced in his second term destroyed the hopes of meeting that goal.
The president’s first-term pledge to end HIV in the U.S. by 2030 has evaporated in his second term.
U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history 🚨🚨
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Or we could try a bunch of pronatalist policies that a) wouldn’t work but b) if they did, wouldn’t help for two decades until those children became old enough to enter the labor market (and, if more births meant fewer women working, could actually cause even more of a deficit in the short term!).
One is for those bone spurs, right?
My FIL used to be an engineer who ended up in management, and his stories about doing deals with Trump always mentioned that Trump would literally say the signed contract was never going to be fully realized. Trump was known for lying about things and saying what he needed to say.
Karen Benjamin Guzzo
Karen Benjamin Guzzo
On Sunday Switzerland votes on capping its population at 10 million. Called, without irony, the Sustainability Initiative. My essay in the Green European Journal's summer edition traces this (il)logic it: Too Many, Too Few: Malthusianisation and the Politics of Population Anxiety. Link in comments
Karen Benjamin Guzzo
“The election on Sunday is a product of Switzerland’s form of direct democracy, which allows groups that can gather 100,000 signatures to send major policy questions to voters with relative ease, in a way that echoes states like California. Polls suggest a tight contest that could go either way.”
I wrote about the contrast between the wacky Oval Office "fertility" meeting last month and a recent Heritage event on birth rates, which the organization is deeming the most critical issue facing the United States.
The way societies measure and imagine populations profoundly shapes which futures become politically possible.
My latest story for @wired.com is about the uber-wealthy tech guys and CEOs paying matchmakers $50k to set them up with trad wives. "They're not looking for a bossy bitch lady," one told me. "They want a woman who knows how to respect and honor a man." www.wired.com/story/matchm...
New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people's privacy when it releases statistics. n.pr/4eiF6av
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Even in blue states, nonreligious tech entrepreneurs and CEOs are increasingly asking for “traditional” and “conservative” women, matchmakers tell WIRED.
New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people's privacy when it releases statistics.
Our summer edition, Life Lines: Navigating Demographic Shifts, is out now.
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Adjusting to the new demographic reality requires that we pivot away from productivity and growth, and towards care for one another and for the planet.
President Trump had 22 medical specialists assess him as part of his latest checkup, according to a medical report recently released by the White House, who also declined to identify which physicians assessed him.
Trump saw about a dozen specialists for prior check-ups, per past statements. The White House has declined to identify which specialists assessed the president.
On the contrary, I believe that raising the cap on incomes for Social Security taxes above the current ceiling of $184,500 is the best and fairest option and would likely be politically popular. It still leaves plenty of room for taxing the rich, even if it brings their effective tax rate over 50%.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says Trump threw him under the bus.
“If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” Cornyn says. “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants.“
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...
