The 75th anniversary of March of Dimes is this year! This past Saturday was the March of Dimes-March for Babies at the new venue, VW of Billings. It was a great morning for the march and and the first Dash for Dimes 5K.
Call it the "baby bust." For the fourth straight year, birth rates in the United States have declined.
Slightly fewer than four million babies were born in the U.S. in 2011, the lowest total since 1998. However, the 1 percent drop in the birth rate was less than it had been in the previous three years. This suggests that the economic pressure experts believe is depressing the birth rate may be easing up.
