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World Population Day

Putting our nation's workforce issues into perspective

Every July 11, the United Nations celebrates this day to bring awareness to humankind's success and impact on our planet.
Every July 11, the United Nations celebrates World Population Day to bring awareness to humankind's success and impact on our planet, including the issues the 6.9 million unemployed Americans are facing as skilled workers struggle to find meaningful employment and college students are graduating with crippling debt and no clear path to a career.

Happy World Population Day! Is the Earth getting smaller or is it just us?

Our planet now sports a robust 7.5 billion other humans that live, work and play remarkably similar to you and me. We’ve grown accustomed to sharing the limited resources and technology to save and preserve lives around the world.

Graph via Google.

We are living longer and thriving because of this. And despite economic inequality separating economic superpowers from less-fortunate nations, fertility rates are high in Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Nigeria’s population (182 million) is expected to surpass the United States by 2050. India’s population (1.31 billion) will zoom by China (1.37 billion) by 2024.

To bring to your attention the benefits and challenges of this population boom, this United Nations event is held every July 11 and has been going on since 1989, when our world only had a wee 5.27 billion of us.

We at WorkingNation want you to understand the scale that the United States is dealing with when it comes to our share of the world’s population. That’s why we’ve created this informative video which tells you, by the numbers, what solving joblessness can do for our domestic economy.

Did you know?
  • 83 million more people are added to the population every year and by 2100 there will be an estimated 11.2 billion humans.
  • Out of the 7.5 billion people on Earth, 300 million of them are in the United States. That’s 25% of the entire world’s population.
  • Out of our 300 million, there are 6.9 million unemployed people, more than the population of Denmark (pop. 5.67 million).
  • If we put 6.9 million of our unemployed workers back into the workforce with median wage jobs, their total income would be more than the entire gross domestic production of Sweden (pop. 9.7 million).
  • 20.5 million Americans are attending some form of higher education. If each graduate landed a median wage job, then they would equal the GDP of Mexico (pop. 127 million).
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Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.