Millennials having fewer kids could be a drag on the economy for the next decade

Toddlers explore the water with their mothers during a swimming class for babies at Lane Cove pool February 16, 2007 in Sydney, Australia.Getty Images/Ian Waldie America's shrinking birthrate is a ... Read More

Aging Millennials Having Fewer Kids Poses Risk To Economy

(CNN)-- America's population is aging and Millennials are having fewer kids than older generations did. That's a risk to the US economy that is not receiving as much attention as concerns about ... Read More

The U.S. Birthrate Has Plunged 53% Since 1960. An HSBC Economist Is Sounding The Alarm

Millennials are having fewer children than their parents did. While that might work for their personal budgets, experts warn it could drag the economy down for decades. James Pomeroy, a global ... Read More

Here's why Americans having fewer kids won't doom the economy

America's falling population isn't necessarily bad for the economy, Fisher Investments said. The US birth rate just fell to its lowest level in over 40 years, according to provisional CDC data. But ... Read More

Are childless millennials harming the US economy?

Millennials appear to be either waiting to have children – when deciding whether to have them at all – which could end up having serious consequences on the U.S. economy. According to a recent Wall ... Read More

Why aren’t millennials and Gen Z having kids? It’s the economy, stupid

Adults in their prime childbearing years are having fewer kids than the generations before them, something that came to a head in 2023 when the U.S. fertility rate reached its lowest level ever. And ... Read More

Millennials are waiting to have kids. That’s bad news for them and the nation, too | Opinion

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. New research confirms suspicions that, citing a struggling economy, millennials are ... Read More

Millennials having fewer kids could be a drag on the economy for the next decade

Millennials aren't having as many kids as previous generations, and that fact could end up dragging down economic growth for more than a decade. That may not faze some child-free millennials, who are ... Read More