Why The U.S. Government Wants Americans To Have More Kids
CNBC·2025-05-30 07:01
America's fertility rates are hovering around historic lows, with approximately 1.6% births per woman over her lifetime. This is below the level needed to sustain the population, which is 2.1% births per woman. We're actually projecting that about 1 in 4 young adults today will never have kids.There are plenty of us out there who are kind of concerned about the falling birth rate, both for kind of its impact on people's ordinary lives, as well as for the ways in which it will affect our economy and our gove ...