Restore Male Jobs to Raise Births

The article argues that most of America’s fertility drop comes from fewer marriages, and that working‑class men became less 'marriageable' when deindustrialization, globalization, and high immigration eroded secure jobs. It proposes protectionist trade, directed industrial investment, vocational training, and tighter immigration to rebuild male economic security, lift marriage rates, and thereby increase births. — This reframes pronatal policy from childcare subsidies to labor‑market engineering, directly tying trade and immigration choices to marriage and fertility outcomes.