After a 2016 marketing campaign occasion in Colorado Springs, then-candidate Donald Trump held two infants. As president, he needs to reverse the autumn within the U.S. start fee.
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After a 2016 marketing campaign occasion in Colorado Springs, then-candidate Donald Trump held two infants. As president, he needs to reverse the autumn within the U.S. start fee.
Jason Connolly/AFP by way of Getty Pictures
The entire fertility fee is a small quantity with massive penalties.
It measures what number of infants, on common, every girl can have over her lifetime. And for a inhabitants to stay steady – flat, no progress, no decline – girls, on common, need to have 2.1 youngsters.
Within the U.S., that quantity is 1.6, and dropping. It is driving a brand new political debate about what – if something – may be accomplished about it.
The factor is, beneath that demographic information level are tens of millions of households making intimate selections about youngsters. NPR’s Sarah McCammon and Brian Mann dug into the politics and private tales behind America’s shrinking birthrate.
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This episode was produced by Sarah Ventre, Liz Baker, Noah Caldwell and Connor Donevan with audio engineering by Simon-Laslo Janssen. It was edited by Megan Pratz, Andrea de Leon and Sarah Handel. Our govt producer is Sami Yenigun.
