lowest level since records began in 1938. why does all this matter? what is going on? we have seen the number of babies born in england and wales following for the last five years and the 0ns suggest it is women tending to delay motherhood until later, and also the success of contraception and so on. that is what they think is causing the fall. the effect is to reduce the total fertility rate in england and wales to 1.58. that is 1.58 children per woman. now, it doesn t take rocket science to realise that is not enough. three babies support to women. the consequence is that we are not put reproducing, if you don t produce two children the number goes down. this has a number
in 2020 the lowest number since 2002. and almost 30 % of the mothers were born outside the uk many originally from pakistan or romania. if you put it this way, there were 320 fewer births every day last year than there where the daily rate back in 2012. so yes, a big drop. the 0ns suggests women are having babies later, improved to contraception and declining child mortality in encouraging people to have smaller families. and it has pushed down the fertility rate in england and wales. the current rate is 1.58, and that would have been even lower still without the impact of the foreign born mothers whose fertility rate is closer to two. data for
we ve got to remember, this is about workers values right now too. we need a strong manufacturing base, but we need a level playing field for the workers, and our workers aren t on a level playing field when gm puts a blazer plant in mexico and pays $1.58 an hour. that s not a level playing field. and i think everybody can understand that doesn t feel fair, but what do you do to make american manufacturing more competitive? this is the quandary we re in, right? this is the thing that donald trump ran on, that bernie sanders ran on. what do you do to square this thing? we have to have trade deals. i have told the president trump i would work with him on trade deals. that is part of the problem. we do have countries like china who steal our intellectual property and subsidize goods with the ultimate goal of destroying our manufacturing and then raising the prices. we have to fight that. i will work with the president to do that, but it can t be
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the deadliest storm in u.s. history. the misery it caused can be hard to comprehend. 51.58, that s the number of rain, the greatest rainfall in the continent. 436,000, $7.85 billion, the amount of money president trump requested in federal fund for first round of relief. there are 1.75 million housing units. 9% in harris county homes with flood insurance. the saddest number of all, 43. that s the confirmed death total so far. unfortunately, the number is likely to raise as well. hurricane is causing what s being called the thousand years flood. i want to take a look at the