China announces three-child policy, in major policy shift
China announced on Monday that each couple would be permitted to have up to three children, a major policy shift from the existing limit of two children after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country. The change was approved during a politburo meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping, […]
How confusion around Biden policies birthed a new refugee camp on the U.S. border
A red pickup truck pulls up next to a migrant tent encampment in the Mexican city of Tijuana, its bed filled with loaves of bread and clothes. Men, women and children run to meet it. “A line! Form a line!” someone yells. A woman in a long skirt climbs into the truckbed and begins to […]
US birth rate falls to its lowest since 1979 as pandemic-led stress rises
Americans had the lowest number of babies in more than four decades last year, mirroring a slump in European birth rates, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced more people to take care of sick family members or deal with job losses. Birth rate in the United States fell 4% in 2020 to about 3.6 million babies, […]
