Following a 2016 campaign program at Colorado Springs, the then candidate Donald Trump held two children. As the President, he wants to reverse the decline in American birth rate.
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Following a 2016 campaign program at Colorado Springs, the then candidate Donald Trump held two children. As the President, he wants to reverse the decline in American birth rate.
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The total fertility rate is a small number with large results.
It measures how many children, on average, will be in the lifetime of every woman. And to stay stable for a population – flat, no increase, no fall – average, 2.1 baby.
In the US, this number is 1.6, and is dropping. It is running a new political debate whether – if anything – can be done about it.
The thing is that there are millions of families under the demographic data point that make intimate decisions about children. Sara McCamon and Brian Mann of NPR dug into politics and personal stories behind the shrinking birth of America.
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