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The national rate is 45-47%, including the underemployed and, because of the high birth rate, the workforce is growing by 240, 000 a year.
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America will be spared the demographic disasters awaiting Europe and China, thanks to its high birth rate and genius for absorbing newcomers.
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The reason for this, however, is that under democracy a country with a declining population, a frighteningly high rate of birth defects, crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating schools might find a better use for taxpayers' money than pouring it into Mr Surkov's Silicon Valley dreams.
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