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As birth rates decline in the U.S. and throughout the world, voices from Silicon Valley to the White House are raising concerns about what they say could be the calamitous effects of steep population ...

States in the northeast are among the safest places to raise a family in the United States, new research has shown.

With an increasingly loud clamour of voices questioning the sustainability of the state pension and people’s savings likely to fall short of what they will actually require once they stop working, ...

The Oregon legislature and Gov. Tina Kotek passed hundreds of bills into law this year. Although most of these new laws are going to take effect on January 1, 51 of them are scheduled to take effect ...