Justice
Why Are Teen Pregnancy Programs Getting Cut?
An Obama-era program to lower the teen birthrate, widely considered a success, is losing its funding, and public health officials demand to know why.
The teen birth rate in the U.S. is at a record low: Since 1991, it’s declined by 67 percent. A large chunk of that drop occurred in the last 6 years, when the Obama Administration’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program began.
Now, in its second round of grants, the TPP Program (not to be confused with the trade agreement) is currently funding 84 communities across the country. Between 2010 and 2016, the years during which TPP funds started flowing, the national rate plunged 41 percent.