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LughMA to FuturologyEnglish · 9 months ago

Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave – largely to no avail.

www.theguardian.com

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Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave – largely to no avail.

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LughMA to FuturologyEnglish · 9 months ago
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Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?
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Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave to try to reverse a rapidly declining fertility rate – largely to no avail
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    9 months ago

    Some economic reform will also be necessary at some point.

    Are you thinking something like !ubi@leminal.space?

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      Eventually, yeah, probably. Also going to need to reverse some of the privatization we’ve allowed in the past decades. Corporate-owned dystopia where money runs 100% of all things is not particularly conducive to child rearing.

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      !communism@lemmy.ml

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