Forget the debt ceiling. Forget the fiscal cliff,” wrote Jonathan Last, “The root cause of most of our problems is our declining fertility rate.” This view, as recently expressed in The Wall Street ...

The U.S. fertility rate — the average number of children each woman gives birth to — fell 22% between 1990 and 2023, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ...

Last year, the total fertility rate once again hit an all-time low. In most local governments, it decreased more sharply than the previous year, leading to analyses that the crisis of regional ...