The Journal Sentinel: Lower birth rates among Millennials following the recession is one reason school enrollments are dropping in the Milwaukee suburbs.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Suburban Milwaukee school enrollment as of 2016-17; image credit: The Journal Sentinel
Kenneth Johnson, professor of sociology and senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire, has devoted a lot of his time to researching fertility trends over the period since the Great Recession and said those trends have “significant implications” for school enrollments. Johnson estimates that about 500,000 fewer babies are being born annually in the United States than would be expected from fertility trends from just before the Great Recession.
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