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Listen Again: Revitalize (2021)

TED Radio Hour

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Why Are People Not Having Kids?

Rider wajahad ali is a father of three. He talks about why some countries are having fewer and fewer kids. The birth rate has halved over the past 50 years, he says. A plummeting population leads to rising labor shortages in world's biggest economies. Less tax revenue means less money in safety net programmes that provide valuable benefits like pensions and health care.

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