What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism

The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist

Green Bay, WI: "Special education costs rise, school populations decline with birth rates"

The end of childhood
Jun 16
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June 16, 2025, Green Bay Gazette: What will Green Bay-area schools look like if funding doesn't increase?

As lawmakers in Madison feud over the state budget and the U.S. Education Department fights to come back from the dead, Wisconsin school districts are watching with bated breath. Those decisions, made at the state and national level, will decide if they have to cut staff, end programs and plan for the future.

Schools have been in budget-cutting mode since the amount of money they can bring in was limited in the 1990s; after over 30 years, administrators say, they’ve cut as much as they can from their budgets. Several area districts are facing million-dollar deficits as inflation drives costs up, special education costs rise and school populations decline with birth rates. . . .