For the first time in the nation’s history, the country’s birth rate marks a landmark shift. According to ABC7, white births have fallen below 50 percent—an unprecedented milestone that means ...

From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...

U.S. births slightly decreased in 2025. That's according to new provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Couples who work from home at least one day a week are having more children and planning larger families, according to a ...

The U.S. birth rate is falling, which has prompted hand-wringing among some of the political class. Academics, however, say there's another way to look at this.

But his paper also reveals that the housing market’s failure to provide three-bedroom units is a massive driver of our ...

The number of births increased in the United States for the first time in seven years, according to a new federal report. Provisional data published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Republicans have gone from belly-aching about prolific “welfare queens” to wringing their hands about the low birth rate and thinking that teenage births aren’t so bad, after all. In service of that, ...

The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational ...

Rush Limbaugh used to tell a joke about New York Times headline writers. If the world were ending, Limbaugh would say, the New York Times headline would be, “World Ends Tomorrow: Women, Minorities ...

Slower birth rates have put pressure on San Antonio-area public school districts. But they are only part of the reason ...