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Is U.S. fertility at an all-time low? Two of three measures point to yes A key U.S. fertility rate has reached a record low for the fourth year in a row. But is it really a record low? The short answer: It’s complicated.

Births. But he's not even talking about that at all.
Start here: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

I love when someone riffs on my joke and makes it so much funnier.

This is SO MUCH FUNNIER.
I snort-laughed.
I am still laughing.

Is U.S. fertility at an all-time low? Two of three measures point to yes A key U.S. fertility rate has reached a record low for the fourth year in a row. But is it really a record low? The short answer: It’s complicated.

I'd say start here: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The best (worst?) skits are the ones where the quotes are basically verbatim.

Also, tales of a coming population implosion are greatly exaggerated. That's not how this works.

Should I continue to have kids after 35?

Demographer: Birth rates by age are rising, but haven't exceeded historic peaks at older ages, so there's precedent

Economist: Wage penalties suggest it's not utility maximizing

RFK Jr: I don't wanna tell you how to live your life, but 35 is a lot of kids

FERTILITY RATES ARE NOT PERCENTS

My son (adolescent) just asked me last night "what do you learn in college" and my response was "how to think"

Exactly.
Or the thousands of acres of uninhabited Pendleton that don't involve firing near a freeway, hospital, and retired nuclear reactor.

Camp Pendleton does live fire *all the time.* They NEVER need to close the freeway.
This is beyond bizarre.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

YouTube video by American Experience | PBS The Polio Crusade | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS

I was thinking a PBS documentary on polio would be good, too. The American Experience or the American Masters one
youtu.be/kk2IDigWBN8?...

I want to hear the pronatalism talk! Any chance you'll get to the west coast?

At this point that's looking both incredibly likely *and* like it's an admin strategy (principal econ indicators are mandated and can be / have been considered essential during shutdowns).

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

"you don’t see the infection you didn’t get"
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

Amid the shutdown data blackout, state unemployment insurance claims continue to shed light on the labor market On Friday, October 3, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) did not publish the September Employment Situation Summary report. The monthly “jobs report” provides policymakers, businesses, and the ...

Nothing replaces the comprehensive, trustworthy, and timely labor market data found in monthly jobs and JOLTS reports, but unemployment insurance claims—collected at the state level—offer a useful read on one key angle of the labor market.
#EconSky #NumbersDay
www.epi.org/blog/amid-th...

PAA and Government Affairs Committee member Colleen Heflin, alongside colleagues, authored this op-ed piece in The Hill: Now is not the time to stop measuring food insecurity buff.ly/sFy8n7u

Individual Sign-on to PAA FFS Letter Please click the link to complete this form.

Join letter to congressional leaders rejecting USDA's decision to halt data collection and release of food security reports. Support restoring funding for the Food Security Supplement in the Current Population Survey.

Individuals: buff.ly/m2pb60w
Organizations: buff.ly/VLQjNjg

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

I mean...
Isn't it *always* the ones who scream loudest who are really just telling on themselves?

Only Betas talk like this.

Sign on. What are you waiting for?

This is basically the premise in the FL case against the 2020 Census, too.

Some of my favorite books are depressing (see, for example, Tolstoy's Hadji Murad) BUT those are *not* the books I want to read right now.

Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner.

They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.

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