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The journalist Jill Filipovic wryly observed, “these two women are having this conversation at their jobs.” Miller is not the ...

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and new federal data shows that another drop last year brought the rate down to the lowest on record. About 3.6 million ...

The U.S. fertility rate has dropped to a record low, continuing a downward trend that has persisted for years. Last year, the fertility rate fell to 53.1 births per 1,000 women ages 15-44 from 53.8 in ...

As global birth rates continue to decline, the Trump administration has announced that it is considering policies aimed at reversing this trajectory for the United States. According to a recent report ...

The U.S. general fertility rate hit an all-time low — again — with 53.1 live births for every 1,000 women in 2025. That’s down about 1% from the prior year, according to a new report from the National ...

The U.S. fertility rate has dropped to its lowest level in decades — and the number of births is far lower than deaths in many states. We looked at fertility rates (or the number of births per 1,000 ...