Birth Rates Drop Amid Faltering Economy

from National Public Radio

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Mark Mather, an associate vice president of the Population Reference Bureau, about the link between the recession and declining birth rates in some areas of the U.S. A Pew Research Center report this spring found a 1.6 percent decline in births between 2007 and 2008. The report looked at data from 25 states for 2008.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, August 25, 2010