Basically, the long-time “gap” between the fertility of educated versus less-educated mothers—more educated mothers have fewer kids—is closing.
This could help explain what’s happening with statistics on marriage and fertility. Data from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention earlier this year showed that married U.S. women are having more children, while unmarried women are having less.
“The upper classes are growing while a suffering minority languishes in poverty.”
It doesn’t matter what the actual outcome is. If inequality continues to be a useful political stick to beat over the populace’s head, someone will torture the data or redefine the terms until they find it.