A milestone working paper at the Institute for Family Studies, authored by University of Mississippi economists Ahmed A. Adesete and Clara E. Piano, has revealed a sobering reality: unexpected inflation is gradually undermining family growth in America, hitting young women hardest and worsening the nation’s birth rate crisis.
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