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Why are people freaking out about the birth rate?

Why are people freaking out about the birth rate?

It's Been a Minute vor 1 Jahr

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There's one little statistic that seems to have gained a lot of
attention recently: the birth rate.

With pro-natalist ideas showing up in our culture and politics,
Brittany wanted to know: why are people freaking out? Who's trying
to solve the population equation, and how? Brittany is joined by
Kelsey Piper, senior writer at Vox, and Gideon Lewis-Kraus, staff
writer at The New Yorker, to get into how the birth rate touches
every part of our culture - and why we might need to rethink our
approach to this stat.

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