A Side Effect of Florida's Bad Economy

"The State of Working Florida 2010" report noted the decline in Florida's economy from December 2007 to April 2010. Birth rates have fallen 8 percent since 2007. A Pew Research Center report found 72 percent of parents do not plan on having more children because of the financial burden. None of this is surprising given the current economic outlook. It is rather unsettling.

Update: the Brookings Institute examines fertility rates. Birth rates still exceeded deaths in 2009. Fertility rates fell to 2.1 percent in 2009. The numbers are still better than the lows of the mid-1970s. Fear not. Americans are not about to become extinct.