A new Pew report says America 's birth rate plunged after 2007 . It says the decline in fertility rates correlates to the start of the recession . And that 's hard when you 're without a paycheck or booted from your house . The drop was so steep that it caused a sharp increase in births, which is why we haven't had as many babies since then. Baby busts also occurred during the Great Depression and in the 1970s .
A new Pew report says America 's birth rate plunged after 2007 . It says the decline in fertility rates correlates to the start of the recession . The drop was so steep that it caused a sharp increase in births, which is why we haven't had as many babies since then. Baby busts also occurred during the Great Depression and in the 1970s .