Input: I think it is very important to look at skills deficiencies too.
Today’s kids can’t write. They can’t speak the proper language and none of them learn to play a musical instrument.
It diminishes all their 3 R’s.
And nobody but Mexicans spends the time to learn a craft anymore.
Maybe robots and AI will bail them out.
But it’s apparent to me that none of them actually DO anything anymore. Sports. Exercise of any kind. Chores.
Even peddling to school or walking to their buddy’s house.
And Latino's as regards blue collar work, yet they are also losing their youngsters. Have some neighbors from Guatemala (parents are working citizens, and one family is Christian) who visit there every year, and as its out in the boonies that have no Internet. But they cry when they have to come back to the US.
The kids do go out and have good family fun in the street in the summer (crowded city), but once the NE cold hits, you do not seem them. All inside mostly playing video games it seems.