(01-16-2019, 11:37 AM)jj82284 Wrote: Inflation effectively repeals mw laws over time.  So when natural market forces make it irrelevant that's a credit to the market not the laws themselves.  

And yes, legalizing and mainstreaming abortion made it much more prevalent, despite what our BETTERS promised.  The delay between legalization and the decreased economic capacity of offspring doesn't negate the underlying contributing economic factor.

Florida's minimum wage has been indexed to inflation since 2004.

The baby boom, depending on who you ask, ended between 1960 and 1964.
The FDA approved the first birth control pills in 1960.  Birth control became legal in all 50 states with a 1965 court decision.    

I agree abortion law has had an impact on birth rate.  But child labor laws? No way.  No evidence.

The main driver is birth control.

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