Tag: Declining birth rate
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The Country That Stopped Replacing Itself. Why America Needs Immigrants.
With fertility hovering around 1.6 children per woman—well below the roughly 2.1 needed to replace a generation—the U.S. can either import workers, redesign institutions for smaller cohorts, or do both. Choosing neither will be the most expensive option. For years, America has treated falling birth rates as an academic concern—fodder for demographers and anxious op-eds.…