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In some ways it can be seen as an analog for our situation here in the United States. We face a demographic winter.

There's no doubt about it. We are not having enough children and the future

economically society therefore looks pretty bad and there are places in the world

the Western world where it looks even worse one of those is Southern Europe does it show us our

possible future or maybe a possible way out of that demographic winter.

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I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to talk about fertility rates

in southern Europe, Limon Stone.

He's a PhD candidate in Population Dynamics

at McGill University,

Director of Research for Demographic Intelligence,

Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies

ProNatalism Initiative and co-author of a new report,

is their hope for low fertility demographic

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