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To survive the post-2008 baby bust, colleges may need to enroll more underrepresented minority and low-income students, and adjust fees and programming to help students complete degrees without a mountain of debt.
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Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
Despite decades of declining birth rates and years of hand-wringing over a pandemic baby bust, there are now more than 2 billion alpha children worldwide — more than quarter of the population of the planet — and some 6 million in California alone.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Instead, the pandemic produced a baby bust.
—Grady McGregor, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2021
California is seeing a COVID-19 baby bust.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
Although there were predictions that COVID-19 triggered a baby bust, the 2020 data provides little insight into whether or not the pandemic actually impacted birth trends in the U.S.
—Emily Barone, Time, 5 May 2021
The ‘baby bust’ deepened through Covid.
—Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
Some Americans question the need to move that needle, arguing that a baby bust is good for the planet and its finite resources and that slower U.S. population growth – the last decade (2010-19) was the slowest since the Great Depression – is an opportunity not a crisis.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2021
The Covid-19 baby boom appears to be a baby bust.
—NBC News, 28 Apr. 2021
Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
Despite decades of declining birth rates and years of hand-wringing over a pandemic baby bust, there are now more than 2 billion alpha children worldwide — more than quarter of the population of the planet — and some 6 million in California alone.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Instead, the pandemic produced a baby bust.
—Grady McGregor, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2021
California is seeing a COVID-19 baby bust.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
Although there were predictions that COVID-19 triggered a baby bust, the 2020 data provides little insight into whether or not the pandemic actually impacted birth trends in the U.S.
—Emily Barone, Time, 5 May 2021
The ‘baby bust’ deepened through Covid.
—Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
Some Americans question the need to move that needle, arguing that a baby bust is good for the planet and its finite resources and that slower U.S. population growth – the last decade (2010-19) was the slowest since the Great Depression – is an opportunity not a crisis.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2021
The Covid-19 baby boom appears to be a baby bust.
—NBC News, 28 Apr. 2021
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“Baby bust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baby%20bust. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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