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A Mother’s Day truth about the “Fertilization President”

The White House’s avowed concern about the nation’s declining birth rate is a pretext for something else.

Robert Reich
May 08, 2025
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Friends,

With Mother’s Day this Sunday, I wanted to raise a real problem — but one that’s being grotesquely distorted by Trump and his lackeys.

Births in the United States increased by just 1 percent in 2024, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s nearly a record low.

It means ever-fewer workers supporting ev…

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