Why are people freaking out about the birth rate?

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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