Why did US population growth slow?

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"The US added some 27 million residents in the past decade. But that population growth is small, percentage-wise – 9.7 percent. Only during the Great Depression decade was the growth rate lower."

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politi...sus-results-Why-did-US-population-growth-slow

 

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Boomers are getting too old to have children? People are not marrying, or marrying later in life and postponing children, all of the above!

 

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Boomers are getting too old to have children? People are not marrying, or marrying later in life and postponing children, all of the above!

From the article cited above:

"...one main cause was probably the powerful recession of the past several years. Hard times cause some couples to put off having children. They also convince more immigrants to return to or stay in their native lands...Another factor at work here is sheer size. The bigger the nation gets, the more the number of people it has to add just to maintain the same percentage of growth. That’s a trend that’s clear if you look at the nation over the past century. The 1910 census showed US growth of 21 percent. The comparable figure from the 1920 count was 15 percent...

 

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..."Several states with large immigration populations, both legal and illegal, will gain at least one seat out of the latest census numbers. They include Florida, Texas, Arizona and Nevada. South Carolina, Georgia and Washington state, which all saw unusually high rates of growth in their immigrant populations over the past decade, will also gain a congressional seat each. South Carolina, for instance, registered a 150 percent increase in its immigrant population, according to a CIS analysis..."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...s-factor-census-results-congressional-makeup/