U.S. Birthrate Keeps Falling
The decline in the U.S. birth Service (ERS), said the effect of
rate shows no sign of halting and the recent Supreme Court
in 1973 may be below the level decision on abortion “will almost
needed for parental replacement, certainly serve to further lower
according to a report presented the birth rate in this decade.”
at the recent USDA National The US. birth rate fell from 18.2
Agricultural Outlook Conference births per thousand total
in Washington, D.C. population in 1970 to 15.7 per
The speaker, Calvin L. Beale of thousand m 1972.
USDA’s Economic Research Beale joined other speakers at
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the Outlook Conference’s Family
Living Sessions in reporting on
national issues influencing the
quality of life.
Theodore Taylor, executive
director, Day Care and Child
Development Council of Ameica,
Inc., said that up to now the
United States hasn’t faced up to
“the inevitability of child care as
a social institution . . a way of
organizing which features a high
degree of social responsibility.”
Good, creative child care offers,
he said, a better chance for a
child to be able to cope while at
the same time affording greater
family stability and a new focus
for a kind of “extended family
community” at the neighborhood
level.
On the issue of welfare reform,
Alair A. Townsend, of the
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Trade Barriers Seen
Hurting Farm Exports
Dr Carroll Brunthaver,
assistant secretary of
agriculture, forecast increasing
pressure on trade barriers which
prevent U S farm exports from
competing in foreign countries.
“The United States has a
balance of trade problem and it is
serious,” said Dr Brunthaver
before the 1973 National
Agriculture Outlook Conference
here. “We have a potential
growth industry in agriculture
which could go a long way toward
solving the balance of trade
problem We have already made
the basic decisions for an export
oriented agriculture.
“With the trade problem and
having taken steps to expand U S
agriculture,” he said, “we must
increasingly put pressure on
barriers which prevent one of our
most efficient industries from
improving our 1 balance of
payments
“We would prefer to solve the
balance of trade problem through
trade liberalization If each
country lowered its trade
barriers so that goods and ser
vices could flow freely, then the
principle of comparative ad
vantage would work to even out
trade balances.
“However, if we cannot solve
the trade balance problem
through trade liberalization,” Dr.
Brunthaver warned, “then the
Joint Economic Committee, said
that many of the earlier analyses
and “solutions” only treat the tip
of the iceberg. Many programs,
including Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC), are
past due for overhaul, she added,
and “public debate about them
must reflect the $lOO billion scale
on which they operate.”
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more direct action ”
The assitant secretary said
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already one of our leading dollar
earners overseas, can make an
even bigger contribution to our
balance of trade because (1)
farm product markets are ex
panding rapidly, (2) American
farmers are so highly productive
and efficient, (3) we have a
supporting system of research,
education and extension that has
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most highly skilled corps of farm
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supply inputs and then transport
and market the products, and (5)
we have a comparative ad
vantage in producing the grains
and oilseeds that are the hottest
items in the world’s growing
agricultural trade.
The assistant secretary said
Administration favors extension
of the Agricultural Act of 1970,
with some variations- The set
aside and farmer decision
making principles should be
retained, along with the authority
and funds needed to idle excess
capacity, the commodity loan
mechanism which provides an
emergency floor under prices
and gives farmers a credit tool
However, he said, supplemental
income payments should be
phased down, and out-daied
allotments and bases should be
dropped in favor of a cropland
base for individual farms.
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