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		<title>Baby Bust?  Busted!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recession has trimmed childbearing---but how much? | Blech.&nbsp;There has been a spate of news stories (here&#8217;s one) claiming that US birth rates have fallen to &#8220;the lowest level in at least a century.&#8221; Color me skeptical. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (see the chart to the right) child bearing hit its 20th century trough in the mid-1970s, when the &#8220;total fertility rate&#8221;&#8212;the number of children women could expect over a lifetime&#8212;dipped down to 1.74.&nbsp;But...]]></description>
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