America's progressive cities are increasingly childless, report finds: 'Family-exodus doom loop'

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American families with young children are leaving urban cities in high numbers, which might indicate urban progressive policies are to blame, according to a recent report in The Atlantic and analysis by a Manhattan Institute scholar.

The Atlantic's Derek Thompson took aim last week at vice presidential candidate JD Vance's pronatalist commentary, but admitted progressives have a "family problem" that has less to do with the individual decision not to have children and more to do with the family policies of large Democratic cities and politicians.

The under-5 population is declining twice as fast in large urban counties when compared to other parts of the country, according to a new analysis of census data by Connor O’Brien, a policy analyst at the Economic Innovation Group think tank.

The number of younger children declined by nearly 20 percent in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and it fell by double-digit percentage points in the counties that make up all or most of Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and St. Louis between 2020 and 2023, according to the data, the Atlantic reported.

"These places ought to be advertisements for what the modern progressive movement can achieve without meddlesome conservatism getting in the way, at the local or state level," The Atlantic wrote in its piece. "If progressives want