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The rising output per worker made possible by the increased use of robots and computers also will allow employees to work fewer hours and enjoy more leisure.
Fewer working hours will also provide more opportunities for travel, eating out, and other activities that create jobs for service workers.
As a result, the US solar industry, which employs over 250,000 Americans, will suffer, while Trump continues futilely to try to revitalize a coal industry that employs fewer than 55,000 people.
Fewer livestock would mean fewer animal products in our diet, which would reduce our consumption of harmful saturated fats, leading to a 30% decline in heart disease.
Eating fewer animal products would reduce food prices as well, because cattle are fed on grain.
Europeans also have far fewer cultural concerns about migrants than media coverage might lead one to believe: 69% of Europeans believe that migrants do not pose a cultural threat.
This rising dependency ratio is made worse by widening economic inequality; as more wealth is concentrated in fewer hands, the promise of ever-improving standards of living for most people may not be fulfilled.
That is why, on issues like climate change, the UN will continue to play a role, but more intensive negotiations are likely to occur in smaller groups such as the Major Economies Forum, where fewer than a dozen countries account for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions.
The BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – consume fewer antibiotics per person than the US.
If they succeed, they will have undermined the stability of the system, all but ensuring that pensioners collect fewer benefits in the future.
An educated woman is also likely to bear fewer children and is able to plan for a healthier, more prosperous future for herself and her family.
Constructive populist responses to inequality are fewer, but they should certainly be mentioned.
It is fewer than 100 days until the UK leaves, and at the moment there is no deal in sight that is acceptable to both Parliament in Westminster and the European Commission and European Council in Brussels.
India has four times fewer cars than France, though it suffers 20 times more road-related deaths – that is, 80 times more accidents per car.
Trade-offs also pervade environmental policy: Cutting more of one pollutant, for example, leaves fewer resources to address other issues.
Because of consolidation, fewer television stations actually gather and report the news.
With more children surviving to adulthood, poor families are choosing to have fewer children, and to invest more in their health and education.
The fewer external constraints, the better: peace and security result from a balance of great powers.
If his public approval sinks too low, fewer members of Congress will work with him, and more will work against him.
Fewer people recognize that the gaps between rich and poor in terms of science and technology are even larger than the gaps in income.
Income levels are higher on average in the US, but mainly because the Nordic countries work fewer hours per week.
With fewer children to replenish the workforce, the working-age cohort of those 15-64 years old would shrink from 68.4% to 60.7%.
Official statistics suggest that overall labor-force participation declined between 2011 and 2015, with fewer than two million new jobs created annually.
With fewer victims, crime will pay less.
Trump probably will build his wall on the Mexican border, even though fewer new immigrants are arriving than in the past.
But his spin on the extra scrutiny of Russia probably carries fewer risks than would his interpretation of an outright ban.
We get richer because we figure out how to maintain or increase output with fewer employees, and because innovation creates new products and services.
In both Germany and South Korea, the idea that historic alliances may offer fewer tangible benefits than tacit neutrality – particularly in terms of exports – appears to be taking root, especially among business elites.
Far fewer will suffice for most countries.
In such a situation one needs urgent reforms that create more taxpayers, not fewer as is now the case as a result of partial restructuring without deregulation, good budgets and lots of growth.
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