MSNBC Morning Joe June 4, 2024 12:08:00
Population drop of almost a million people last year. what does this signal for the country? >> reporter: it's not a surprise. they were expecting to have this moment arrive by 2025, so it's certainly been accelerated. what has happened over the last decade is that the birthrate has been declining. we have an increasingly ageing society, and people just aren't having babies anymore. it's the pendulum swinging the other way of the one child policy that used to limit families to having one child, that used to punish families for having more than one child. now what we've seen is a shift in senti...