As South Florida school districts predicting dwindling enrollment into next school year, the steady decline in birth rate ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” ...
Would a trophy or tax break be enough to convince Americans to have more children? Countries around the world with plummeting birth rates have test driven all sorts of strategies to promote ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Emily Scherer for The 19th) Half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth ...
The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As birth rates decline even among its large immigrant ...
The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational ...
As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the near-constant discourse on how to raise birth rates, spurred by the record low ...
The political class is worried about the historic drop. But the biggest change is among the youngest women, who are the least ready to have children.
South Korean authorities launched a flurry of initiatives in 2025 aimed at reversing the country’s demographic collapse—part of a broader effort to nudge up the world's lowest fertility rate, which ...
Graciela Benavides had planned to be in law school by now. But she got pregnant when she was 16 and has to focus on caring and providing for her now 5-year-old daughter. As Tatiana quietly played ...
*The CDC has released new data showing a continued drop in birth rates among Black women in the U.S. According to provisional data, the Black birth rate declined by 4% in 2024 alone. That puts it in ...