New data from the US Census Bureau show there’s been a historic rise in immigration, which is offsetting the declines associated with fewer births in the past decade. Steven Martin, a work, education, and labor expert at the Urban Institute, told The Washington Post there’s a been a “gradual change in the racial and ethnic profile of America’s children.” And though children outnumber older adults in the United States, the median age is rising across every racial and ethnic group. “But a more useful way of thinking about it is the age structure of the population is changing for everybody,” Martin says. “And it’s changing in a way that the retired population is increasing rapidly for everybody.”

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