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The US birth rate dropped 2.6 percent last year to its lowest level in at least a century, and experts are attributing this to the economic downturn. This is the second consecutive year that the birth rate has declined and a stark contrast to 2007, when more babies were born in the US than any other year in the nation's history and when the current recession began. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the birth rate also dropped as people, unsure about their economic futures, postponed having children. When the economy improved, the birth rate increased, and experts expect that the same will be true today. Discuss