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 price.
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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 price.
Jason Connolly/AFP through Getty Photos
The overall fertility price is a small quantity with huge penalties.
It measures what number of infants, on common, every girl can have over her lifetime. And for a inhabitants to stay secure – flat, no progress, no decline – ladies, on common, should have 2.1 children.
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 achieved about it.
The factor is, beneath that demographic information level are thousands and thousands of households making intimate choices about children. 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 government producer is Sami Yenigun.
