By sharing her fertility-preservation attempts, AOC invites us to consider how to really support families. Here’s the start of my essay in the Nation this past week : Since she was elected to Congress in 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had
Happy to share that my new book The Real Domestic Product: How Birth Control Built Equality (and Why the Future of the Economy and the Planet Depends on It) is now out in the world! Thanks to the wonderful crew
US fertility rates continued to fall overall in 2025 (down 1.3% for the second year in a row, for a total decline of 23.4% since 2007), to 53.1 births / 1,000 women between 15-44, from 53.8 in 2024. That includes continued declines
Per updated CDC data, the 2024 Provisional US Fertility Rate fell 1.3% overall (from 54.5 births / 1,000 women aged 15-44 to 53.8) from 2023. That included declines among teens 15-19 (down 4%, from 13.1 to 12.6 per 1,000 women
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In 2021, per the CDC, the US birth rate rose nationally by 1%— from 56 births / 1,000 fertile women (those 15 to 44 years old) to 56.6 births, regaining some of the 4% loss in 2020. 2020. Among 2020
In 2020, the world’s first year of living dangerously with Covid, a smaller share of Americans had children than in the year prior. Most of this birth rate fall was part of the ongoing trend toward decline that has been underway