The New Baby Boom: How the White House is looking to jumpstart the nation's birth rate
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The Trump administration is reportedly fielding ideas for how to increase the declining U.S. birth rate, a longtime priority of White House figures like Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk.
Since 1990 the U.S. total fertility rate has declined from 2.1 births per woman – enough to fully replace the current population – to 1.62 births per woman in 2023, below the replacement level, according to a March report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, part of a larger decline in birth rates in wealthy peer countries.
Experts point to a variety of causes for the trend, including the increased prevalence of dual-income households, cost of living issues, and changing social mores.
While the U.S. birth rate rests between comparable nations — higher than that of Japan, Italy, and China, on par with the UK and Australia, but lower than South Korea — the declining figure is a subject of concern for many. A shrinking population could struggle to invigorate the economy and strain the social safety net, as the population skews increasingly older.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/baby-boom-white-house-looking-220419865.html
I'd say we need policies which make raising a family more affordable and worry less about giving tax breaks to wealthy people who don't need them.
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Give us stuff like health care, sustainable mass transit, national parks, and clean energy. And make it so we can save money to have a better life. Right now, the billionaires, mega corporations, and mega churches hoard all the wealth and it's seriously becoming a massive problem. It is insane. Trump's idea of a "golden age" only applies to those who have the money right now. Not us. 
