Another Year, Another Record-Low American Fertility Rate – Plus, A Dependency Ratio Surprise

Another Year, Another Record-Low American Fertility Rate – Plus, A Dependency Ratio Surprise

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Readers, it is but mere coincidence that the day after once again revisiting old-age dependency ratios in light of the coming insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund, the CDC released its 2019 fertility statistics, in which, once again, the total fertility rate dropped even further: from 1.7295 in 2018 to 1.705 in 2019. In terms of the total number of births in the country, this is…

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