{"id":392430,"date":"2019-01-11T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T09:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-birth-rate-too-low-to-replace-population-report\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T09:52:50","slug":"presstv-us-birth-rate-too-low-to-replace-population-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-birth-rate-too-low-to-replace-population-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US birth rate too low to replace population: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US birth rate was down in nearly all 50 states in 2017 and below the level needed for the population to replace itself, according to a new government report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, the fertility rate was 16 percent lower than what is required to keep the population level steady, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say this is likely due to the fact that the large proportion of native-born women are having fewer children than before.<\/p>\n<p>CDC researchers also found that the US white population has been hit hard by the Great Recession of 2008 and is aging.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC reported in May that the US birth rate has fallen for three straight years. The agency said the number of US babies born in 2017 fell 2 percent from 2016 to 3.85 million, a 30-year low.<\/p>\n<p>Demographers and public policy experts say if the rate continues to decline, there will not be enough healthy, young workers to keep the economy going and replace&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/11\/585462\/US-birth-rate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US birth rate was down in nearly all 50 states in 2017 and below the level needed for the population to replace itself, according to a new government report. Nationwide, the fertility rate was 16 percent lower than what is required to keep the population level steady, the US Centers for Disease Control and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}