"..even over the course of the country's five years of slow but steady recovery."
"..more births during the recession and recovery.."
"..has persisted even as the worst effects of the labor market have abated "
" ..as the economy gathers strength"
"..has had the most punishing impact on demographic trends of anything since the Great Depression"
Because the Great Depression was a walk in the park compared to what we're going through now.
Because demographers are idiots, or at least ignorant of reality.
"..even over the course of the country's five years of slow but steady recovery."
'Recovery'. Heh. doesn't rate an 'lol'; it's not funny. When balanced with the damage this administration has piled upon the last one, coupled with the fact that NOTHING has changed insofar as the conditions that created the 'financial crisis'...the word 'recovery' is best defined in this case as 'Hospice'...
"..more births during the recession and recovery.."
When Hispanics stop having children, you know it's bad out there.
" ..as the economy gathers strength"
That quote was preceded by the phrase 'fertility rates'. The author is a bigger idiot than the demographers. I'm not even going to address the phrase as quoted; it's just propaganda from the ignorant.
"..has had the most punishing impact on demographic trends of anything since the Great Depression"
That statement is the worst of all by Kenneth Johnson, shining example of how college fails many adults (or perhaps the converse is more true): The truth is that GOVERNMENT has had the most punishing impact on demographic trends of anything since the 'first' Great Depression...
Now, of course, I snarkily suggest that an upcoming crisis portrayed by Dear leader or its replacement will be the 'baby gap' and the 'War on Negative Birth Rate' will result in more moronic subsidies (i.e., EIC and/or 'free college') for couples to have babies. Natch.
Very simply, our culture has accepted artificial contraception wholesale, and is now reaping the consequences.
A person may be against abortion, but are they open to life?
“But the number of children per Hispanic-American woman has plummeted from just under three in 1990 and 2.7 as recently as 2008 to 2.19 in 2012, just above the replacement rate.”
Hmmm, sounds like Texas and much of the country can stay Republican MUCH LONGER than previously thought, assuming that we can STOP AMNESTY from being passed.
The Democrat strategy is smart and making sense. They tell us that will out-populate us anyway, and that the ONLY WAY to get them to like us, at least a bit, is to pass Amnesty.
It’s actually a pretty desperate strategy, but you have Republican leaders (i.e., Rove, Rubio, McCain, Gram, etc.) that are actually STUPID ENOUGH to buy into that.
...now with this data - if we SEND THEM HOME, the demographic makeup of the country will change VERY LITTLE in the succeeding years.
In simple terms, kids are less affordable, and there is too much uncertainty in our society. Both of these can be laid at the feet of the little man with cheeks of tan.
It’s called ‘cultural suicide’ and it’s NOT caused by a financial crisis. Joseph Lawler needs to understand this...
In a little more than a hundred years there won’t be enough Germans to keep the German language alive. And yeah, there will be humans who occupy the land known as ‘Germany’ but they won’t be ‘German’. And they won’t speak German. It’ll be the same here.
The white middle class is only having as many kids as they think they can get through college. With today’s tuition prices, that’s one. Maybe.