The Underpopulation Crisis
Building Tomorrow
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The US Needs to Remove Practical Barriers to Having Children
Sweden has some of the most generous benefits in the world, including 16 months of paid parental leave and a substantial child allowance. The expansion of those programs in the 90s boosted the Swedish fertility rate from a low of 1.56 and 2000 to a high of 1.9 a decade later. It's not clear how we'd be able to pay for a second Social Security system on top of our already ballooning national debt or imperial obligations. But there is one relatively easy, relatively cheap thing that the US can do now.
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