The U.S. birth rate plunge to an all-time low in 2024 after on a downwork trajectory

or off the 20 years with soaring housing costs cited as major contribution contributing factor earlier this summer.

U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention released updated birth rate for this year,

revealing that the nation's national fertility rate to less than 1.6.

I think the exact number is 1.59, to be exact. Kids

per women, down from 2.1 just 19 years ago. Wow. Which that's the replacement rate, by the way.

The country needs to sustain its population. The last two decades saw women increasingly delaying

having children or choosing

to not have them at all. There are many factors fuel in this trend, including personnel and

culture, and one of them is rising housing cause. Data analyzed by Realtor.com economists showed that

2006 to 2006, the financial burden of purchasing a home has grown dramatically. In 2006,

the median price of a single

family home was $22,000, which is now $343,000 in $24, when adjusted for inflation. But by comparison,

the median sale in 2024 was $410,000, which is $66,000 more than what it was in 26.

Overtime, the 18-year period, the U.S. total fertility rate dropped from 2.1 to 1.6, Adam.

Well, to me, these are two totally separate stories that they tried to like hodgepodge

together to give some reasons as to why birth plates, birth rates are plummeting.

Yeah, do, does the housing market have something to do with

it a little bit, but not really. So intersexual dynamics is really the reason here. Housing aside,

listen, you can rent the place, you could buy a place. That's not going to stop you from having kids.

The biggest problem is what we discussed last week. You have young men in America that want

nothing more than to settle down, have a family, have a wife, have kids. This is something that men

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