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Only got as far as the subhead due to a paywall but anyone notice how insistent these articles are that government subsidies are not the answer?

It seems there is strong agreement from the elites that sharing the country's wealth is not something they'll accept to solve this problem.

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Look I want government subsidized childcare and to tax wealth, but I don’t know that it would actually do much to move birth rates.

Poor people on average have more kids than rich people. It is likely more cultural than strictly speaking financial. No one’s all of a sudden having five kids because of government subsidized childcare.

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