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They're sometimes described as the lonely onlies. but these days the only child is becoming more and more common in american families. a cdc survey of 50-year-old women found 20 years ago only 11.4% of them had just one child. by 2006, that number had jumped to 18.3%. if you're a parent with just one child, do you need to take any special steps to make sure your child is well adjusted? here this morning, carl pickhart, a child psychiatrist and author of "the future of your only child." thanks for being with us this morning. >> yeah, good to be with you. >> full disclosure, you have four childr...

Core prices which are considered to have more of an impact on consumer spending, so the consumer is still propping up the consumer is still propping up a lot of economies right now, it will be interesting to see if they can do that at the end of the year, every will have price increases of four or five or 6% every month. have price increases of four or five or 696 every month.- have price increases of four or five or 696 every month. good to talk to you. _ five or 696 every month. good to talk to you, thank _ five or 696 every month. good to talk to you, thank you _ five or 696 every month. go...

On these things. and how is a business owner supposed to make a decision. >> you can't play monopoly and then change the rules mid-game it creates an unfair advantage. >> the advantage always seems to washington. gentlemen, i want to thank you. i want to thank you both. i know this number gets lost in the sauce. 18.3. i know it doesn't seem like much just a trillion every other year or so but it's a lot of money. gentlemen thank you. now we'll be adding about 5 million illegals into all of this. >> keep talking about the illegal immigrant. here we go again talking about the illegal immigrant...

Work for pay no longer dominates our financial lines. bill: when that happens the government takes in less revenue, too. usa today crunched these numbers and went through the data. it found the increase from the year 2000, if i've got this right, is 33 percent on a percentage basis. >> yes. bill: the year 2000, it was 12 1/2%. now, as i mentioned, it's 18.3, that's an incredible rise. >> it is. it's a huge shift over the past decrease aid and in particular, in the past two, 2 1/2 years. it's in large part of the result of the drastic recession. but it's also due to the expansion of social prog...

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