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Utah ranks fifth nationally in focusing on future generations despite a 60% decline.

High birth rates and parks funding offset low school and youth organization funding.

Utah's birth rate dropped from 21 to 13 per 1,000 residents from 2008-2023.

SALT LAKE CITY — When it comes to focusing on future generations and ensuring their prosperity, how is Utah doing? Is it lagging behind other states in the Mountain West?

These are questions the Utah Foundation's latest report dug into, and what it discovered is that most states in the Mountain West (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona) have seen a "rapid" decrease in their focus on future generations since 2013 — and Utah is no different.

The Utah Foundation used

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