Baby Boom in Stronger States Signals U.S. Birth Recovery
Source: Bloomberg
Rising fertility rates in states such as South Dakota, where unemployment is 3.8 percent, are prompting some demographers and economists to predict a reversal of the nationwide decline in fertility that coincided with the recession and its aftermath. More births would boost the economy by spurring demand for new homes and goods from pregnancy tests and diapers to furniture and cars.
“The higher birth rates in stronger-state economies are a good leading indicator for the rest of the country,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics Inc. in West Chester, Pennsylvania. “There could even be a spurt of births sometime around mid-decade given that many young households have been putting off marriage and having children.”
Besides South Dakota, 18 other states, including Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota, Texas and Ohio had 2012 fertility rates higher than recession lows, according to an analysis by Daniel Schneider, a scholar in health policy research at the University of California at Berkeley.
The jobless rate in those 19 states averaged 6.1 percent in August compared with a national level more than a percentage point higher.
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Unsustainable. 
I forgot where the mathematician's Web page was, but there's one that forecasts out human population growth until every last drop of water in the oceans and on Earth was taken to make up the ~70% in a human. Something like 1,500 years, I thought, before this planet was Mars like. 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/us-usa-abortion-southdakota-idUSBRE92711L20130308
If you are trying to terminate your pregnancy in South Dakota, your life just got a whole lot tougher. On Thursday, the South Dakota Senate passed a bill that extends the abortion waiting time to what is the longest delay in the country. Current state law already requires a waiting period of three days, and mandatory counseling from nonmedical pro-life advocates. The new bill, which is waiting to be signed into law next week by Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard, would exclude weekends and holidays from being included in the calculation of the 72 hour waiting period.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/28436/south-dakota-abortion-laws-longest-mandatory-waiting-times-in-u-s-introduced
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Few working class women have the luxury to take off work for a full week in order to get what is already a relatively expensive procedure.
The last sentence above helps to explain why babies are poppin' out all over in SoDak.
and the link.
I didn't know this! 
Just look at the top twenty countries' high fertility rates and their politics, then look at the politics of the eighteen American states, and tell me that women of those countries and states are willing partners in the political processes and birth rates. I seriously doubt it.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_tot_fer_rat-people-total-fertility-rate
There's way more going on here than Bloomberg will say outright. I can speculate or do a women's rights review, but overall, I think we can't put any good spin on this "report."
