By Emmy Griffin, Patriot Post - The low fertility rate is a web of our own weaving, but we can reverse it with self-sacrifice... The fertility rate in America is not good. Our country’s population rate hasn’t been this low since the 1930s. With a birth rate of just 1.6, it’s not going to keep up with the death rate, which is a foreboding sign for an already slow economy that depends on young people to drive it.