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What some once predicted would be a pandemic baby boom is actually turning out to be a baby bust.
But AOC said the real culprit behind the crisis is the numerous hardships facing entire generations.
Experts agree and say the 2020 fall is part of a larger, ongoing decline in birth rates.
Amid the country s ongoing birth rate decline, one lawmaker is denouncing the systemic obstacles she believes are contributing to the fall.
In a Wednesday tweet, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to a CBS News article on the declining birth rates crisis among younger generations.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decries the student loan debt, low incomes, and climate change facing entire generations as birth rates continue to fall
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decries the student loan debt, low incomes, and climate change facing entire generations as birth rates continue to fall
Erin SnodgrassMar 4, 2021, 09:57 IST
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Monday, August 24, 2020.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/Pool
What some once predicted would be a pandemic baby boom is actually turning out to be a baby bust.
But AOC said the real culprit behind the crisis is the numerous hardships facing entire generations.
Experts agree and say the 2020 fall is part of a larger, ongoing decline in birth rates.
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CBS News
Experts sound the alarm on declining birth rates among younger generations: It s a crisis
New data is confirming a baby boom that some doctors expected was actually a baby bust. Health departments in more than two dozen states provided records to CBS News, showing a 7% drop in births in December nine months after the first lockdowns began.
Researchers say it continues a much bigger plunge in fertility in recent decades.
The number of babies the average woman in the U.S. is expected to deliver has dropped from nearly four in the 1950s to less than two today.