Older workers shut out of the market train the models that displaced them

Claim

Skilled older Americans shut out of a brutal job market are turning to contractor work training AI models through marketplaces, feeding the system that displaced them, while US women bore roughly 710,000 fewer babies than at the 2007 peak.

Reported metric: -710,000 births

Reporting date: 2026-04-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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