Why are people freaking out about the birth rate? | It's Been a Minute
June 25, 2025
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as posted by the channelThere's one little statistic that seems to have gained a lot of attention recentlythe birth rate. With pronatalist ideas showing up in our culture and politics, Brittany wanted to knowwhy 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 LewisKraus () , 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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