Image for the day: Fewer Working-Age Adults

Nearly half of Americans live in a county where the prime working-age population (ages 25 to 54) shrank over the last decade.

-10%

+10%

0%

Change, 2007 to 2017

Sources: Economic Innovation Group; Moody’s; Census Bureau

Neil Irwin and Emily Badger, "Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem. An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas," The New York Times, April 9, 2019