"baby bust" in the future, according to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and economic uncertainty in the past year, the U.S.
is on a continued downward trend in fertility rates, according to Pew. In May, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that revealed the U.S.
birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years. The rate dropped for mothers of every major race and ethnicity, and in nearly every age group, falling to the lowest point since federal health officials started tracking it more than a century ago, according to the CDC’s report.