The Good Crisis: How Population Stabilization Can Foster a Healthy U.S. Economy

Chapters explore

The payoff of investing in our aging population—and how older workers deliver exceptional value.

The proven links between a quality education, increased productivity, and shared upward mobility.

How employer sponsored wellness programs can save health care costs, cultivate productivity, and increase worker engagement.

Why it’s important to expand and improve the labor pool by integrating disabled people and others into the workforce.

How population stabilization is one key step in the direction of a more sustainable world at a time when natural resources are being depleted at an unprecedented and unsustainable rate.

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Go Green Radio Podcast: “The Good Crisis”

Nevada Public Radio KNPR: “Gray New World”

Jay Talking, CBS Boston: “Is it Getting Crowded in Here?”

Simple Living Works! Podcast: “Population Connection, Part 1”

Jefferson Public Radio JPR: “Zero Population Growth by Another Name”

American’s Workforce Radio: 6/27/2016

John Seager

John Seager is President and CEO of Population Connection, the nation’s largest grassroots population organization. He regularly speaks to environmental, religious, and community groups across the country. Seager has been a guest lecturer at more than 50 colleges and universities, including MIT, Duke University, Brandeis University, University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA. A veteran political strategist, Seager was chief of staff for a Democratic member of Congress. Before coming to Population Connection he was at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has authored numerous op-eds and articles on various aspects of population dynamics and is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. Seager holds a B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

David E. Bloom

David E. Bloom is the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also serves as Director of Harvard’s Program on the Global Demography of Aging and as a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As the author of more than 300 articles, book chapters, and books, Bloom is one of the foremost experts on the impact of population dynamics on health, education, labor, and economic growth. Bloom is a member of the Board of Directors of PSI (formerly Population Services International), and the Board of Trustees of amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. He began his career on the public policy faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University and later served on the economics faculty at Columbia University and Harvard University. Bloom holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a PhD in Economics and Demography from Princeton University.