| Sumario: | The article reports on some of the socio-economical problems in the United States. Although the long-time trend in the general average of reproduction rates in the United States is downward, many areas have rates considerably higher than the net reproduction rate of 100 that is considered necessary for maintaining a stationary population in the nation. Differentials in reproduction rates are aligned on the basis of regional differences, rural-urban differences and class differences. The birth rate is materially higher in the rural-farm, than in the urban population in every major geographic region of the United States. Agriculture, in spite of a temporary "feed the world policy," faces a long-term decline in opportunities for agricultural employment, and youth must be prepared to migrate out of the southern agricultural region or suffer the inequalities caused by population pressure. Next to war, rank those closely allied national and international problems of social, economic, and political nature that stem from population pressures.
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