Q&A: What does an aging Congress mean for a much younger nation?

Photo credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain. Article by Pennsylvania State University. Phys.org – August 4, 2023. Original article written by Francisco Tutella and published by Penn State University.

The United States has the second-oldest legislature in the world in terms of politicians’ ages, according to Kevin Munger, the Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor of Political Science at Penn State. Munger studies gerontocracy, or government rule by old people. […]

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