Economists have watched the American birth rate plummet and wondered exactly what caused it. We’ve heard back about childcare costs, shifting cultural norms, lack of suitable partners, and even ...

Trinity Christian College, Siena Heights University and Sterling College couldn’t pull through. In 2025, they succumbed to a fundamental problem killing colleges across the US: not enough students.

The number of babies born in 2018 fell to the lowest level since 1986, according to a provisional report from the Centers for Disease Control. The report found that the total number of births in 2018 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Emily Scherer for The 19th) Half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth ...

There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” shortly after reentering the White House and declared, “We want more babies.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data. Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, or about 24,000 fewer ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...