Alessandra Ambrosio babyFacebook  The birth rate in the U.S. has
dropped to its lowest level since the 1920s. Between 2007 and
2010 it dropped 8 percent on average, but interestingly the
decrease was the sharpest in immigrants — down 14 percent.  In
Mexican immigrant women, the drop was extreme: 23 percent.  From
The Washington Post:   This is likely due to people putting off
having kids because of the recession. This could have a major
impact on future economic and social policies, specifically,
social security and medicare for the Baby Boomers.  "We’ve been
assuming that when the baby boomer population gets most
expensive, that there are going to be immigrants and their
children who are going to be paying into [programs for the
elderly], but in the wake of what’s happened in the last five
years, we have to reexamine those assumptions," Roberto Suro of
the University of Southern California told The Washington Post.
"When you think of things like the solvency of Social Security,
for example . . . relatively s