More Babies Will Stimulate the Economy

babiesAccording to Larry Jacobs, the Managing Director of the World Congress of Families, neither stimulus packages nor tax cuts will lead to economic recovery.  The answer, he says, lies in the lower fertility rates compared with the growth of the aging population.  In other words, more babies need to be born to match the older population.

Today, you can learn all about The Demographic Winter at a World Congress of Families' lecture sponsored by the Family Research Council.

D. Beeksma

One of the growing crowd of American "nones" herself, Deborah is a prolific writer who finds religion, spirituality and the impact of belief (and non-belief) on culture inspiring, fascinating and at times, disturbing. She hosts the God Discussion show and handles the site's technical work. Her education and background is in business, ecommerce and law.

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