📉📈 Should the UK Government explore 'pronatalist' policies to address the declining birth rate?

📕 In a new report, @aveek18 & @ScottCorfe weigh up the evidence for/against state support for helping those who wish to have (more) children to do so.https://t.co/vLBGz2bKD2

— Social Market Foundation (@SMFthinktank) September 20, 2021

Britain is facing a 'baby shortage' that could lead to long-term economic stagnation, with only 1.58 children per woman in 2020, well below the 2.1 replacement level needed to keep the population rate stable #population #geography https://t.co/ZE0IWkvW3H

— RGS-IBG Schools (@RGS_IBGschools) September 20, 2021

Hmm, I wonder if the spiralling cost of housing, stagnant wage growth, looming climate emergency and extortionate cost of childcare has anything to do with it? https://t.co/ZyLtmpEVDK

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) September 20, 2021

typical British working parents spend 22% of their income on full-time childcare, more than double the average for western economies.https://t.co/Pqhr0377On

— Professor Amanda Vickery (@Amanda_Vickery) September 20, 2021