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By 2030, and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates weve seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers, and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, bigname companies report that sales have started to slip back once again. Lets have a look at some of those numbers. Global toy sales reached $108] billion in 2023, a 2% d...

I may be white or i may be black and the officer may be white. >> charles, do you agree with the chief that one way to start to overcome bias is to have more contact, whether its more contact between officers and the community, more contact -- i mean the more you learn about other people, the more time you spend with people who are different, the more perhaps your eyes are opened? >> right. what the police chief is saying is that they are basically doing this experiment in realtime on the ground...

That doll study that we did, they were stunned to see their 4 and 5-year-old child when asked whos the good child without any prompting, any explanation of, you know, why one would be good and one not going toward pointing, you know, to the white child as the good child, the darker skinned child as the problem child. we saw that over and over again, even among african-american kids having this implicit bias. the parents were stunned. a lot of them started to feel like a lot of them said previous...

Color estimate. >> okay, yeah. >> reporter: we asked renowned child psychologist and university of chicago researcher dr. margaret beale spencer to design a pilot study for cnn and analyze the results. >> our children are always near us, you know, because were a society, and what we put out there, kids report back. and you ask the question, theyll give you the answer. >> reporter: spencers team tested more than 130 kids in eight schools with very different racial and economic demographics. half ...

Child psychologist and university of chicago researcher dr. margaret beale spencer to design a pilot study for cnn and analyze the results. >> our children are always near us, you know, because were a society, and what we put out there, kids report back. and you ask the question, theyll give you the answer. >> reporter: spencers team tested more than 130 kids in eight schools with very different racial and economic demographics. half of the schools were in the north, half in the south. >> oh! ni...

What we discovered might shock you. first, how we got there. >> skin color, childs skin color estimate. >> okay, yeah. >> reporter: we asked renowned child psychologist and university of chicago researcher dr. margaret beale spencer to design a pilot study for cnn and analyze the results. >> our children are always near us, you know, because were a society, and what we put out there, kids report back. and you ask the question, theyll give you the answer. >> reporter: spencers team tested more th...