Apr 20, 2021 | fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates
The Financial Times just published an article detailing the massive impact policies that promote smaller families – for all – have on the climate crisis. Nothing comes close. And yet people like Matthew Yglesias and the media outlet Vox continue to push...
Dec 16, 2020 | fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates
Matthew Yglesias’ new book, “One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger,” is the thought experiment the title implies: exploring policies that might increase the population of the country threefold by using incentives to create larger...
Nov 3, 2020 | fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates
Matthew Yglesias’ new book, “One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger,” is the thought experiment the title implies: exploring policies that might increase the population of the country threefold by using incentives to create larger...
Aug 4, 2019 | fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates
Last month we wrote to Wajahat Ali, urging him to abandon the old “just have babies” position on policy and instead promote smaller families with greater investment in every child. Today, Jessica Blome, a mother from Oregon and a model for Fair Start...
May 7, 2018 | News & Updates
A recent story in Utah had a lot to say about lower fertility rates in the state, and the need for better policies “[i]f we’re really serious about being pro-natal and wanting people to have children . . . . “ The article used an example of one young woman as an...