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Burn your condoms: America needs more babies or we're doomed

2/4/2013

Middle-class income stagnation, ladies getting edjumacated and child rearing being no fun have all contributed to declining fertility in the U.S. America's population replacement rate has been below sustainable levels for the past 40 years. In other words, the population is aging, and there aren't enough up-and-coming youngsters to take their places in the workforce. Contrary to all the hysterical ravings from immigration alarmists, if not for the roughly 38 million people in the U.S. right now who were born elsewhere, we might already be in a demographic emergency, says Jonathan V. Last. Last outlined the problem in his cleverly titled book, "What To Expect When No One's Expecting." [Source]

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