http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1008622According to newly released government statistics, the U.S. birth rate has dropped below replacement level.
The fact that the birth rate is falling comes as no surprise to Colin Mason, director of media production at the Population Research Institute (PRI), who explains that "our birth rate's actually been dropping for a while."
"It's been kind of propped up temporarily by immigration to this country, but I think that as that starts to level off and as our birth rate really starts to fall in earnest, you're going to start to see more reports like this," he predicts.
Mason believes that will ultimately have the same impact Europe and China are already experiencing.
"You're going to be seeing problems like you see in Japan, where the birth rate is low enough [and] the emerging workforce is too small to really sustain the elderly who are moving into retirement," he warns. "I think in a sense, you're already seeing that here with the Social Security problem, [where] the baby boomers are starting to cash out with their Social Security, [but] we aren't really producing enough workers to fill their shoes."
Some countries have already reached the point where they are providing tax incentives for families. The basic idea is that parents are paying into the economy by having children who eventually become producers rather than just consumers.
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