Demographic Intelligence leaders feature prominently in a new Forbes piece examining the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control that showed U.S. birthrates fell yet again in 2018. Fertility usually declines in times of economic difficulty, so the slide during the Great Recession and its aftermath was expected. But births have yet to rebound in the U.S. D.I.’s Chief Information Officer, Lyman Stone, says declining marriage rates are to blame. While more than half of middle and upper-class adults were married in 2015, that number plummeted to about one-quarter among the poor. It is the working and lower classes that generally have the most babies, and it is those groups who are seeing the most disruption in their lives, both economically and socially. Read the entire piece HERE.