Colorado’s Empty Classrooms Are a Warning for America

Colorado colleges are bracing for what education experts call an "enrollment cliff." Fewer high school graduates mean fewer college applicants, shrinking tuition revenue, budget cuts, mergers, and even campus closures.

The same phenomenon is unfolding nationwide. After years of warnings, the demographic reckoning has arrived...

In 2008, the median Denver-area home price was about a third of what it is today, $225,000 then and $610,000 today...

How are Coloradans responding? They are leaving for greener pastures...

Every new tax, fee, regulatory mandate, or housing restriction ultimately lands somewhere. Increasingly, it lands on young families...

Parents learned an important lesson during COVID: school systems need families more than families need school systems...

The response from many policymakers has been predictable: import more people.

Immigration can increase population numbers. It cannot automatically create social cohesion, economic productivity, or cultural stability. And as is evident in many Western countries, unfettered immigration produces the opposite.

Milton Friedman famously observed that a welfare state and open borders are incompatible...

Across America and Europe, political leaders increasingly appear to view immigration as a substitute for declining native birth rates. It is not.

A nation cannot sustainably replace its future workforce by importing non-assimilating and culturally disruptive populations while simultaneously discouraging its own citizens from forming families...