People are having fewer babies than ever before. Birthrates have fallen for more than 15 years, and last month, the United States announced a record-low total fertility rate of 1.62 babies per woman in 2023.

Yet, the Social Security Administration, in its newest calculations about the future of the trust fund, assumed the birth rate would climb over the next two decades and stabilize at 1.9.

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