A Family Bill for a Shrinking U.S.

Optimist Economy

Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi

Public Policy, Economics, Government, Economy

4.9 • 829 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The declining birth rate in the United States is often discussed not only as a major demographic shift, but as a looming economic disaster. Ideas being pitched to the White House include a $5,000 baby bonus for new parents and (truly) giving medals to women who have a half-dozen babies. But what are the real contours of this supposed crisis? Indeed, according to economist Kathryn Edwards, if we haven’t done anything to remove the constraints on having kids, can we call it a crisis at all?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spin in My Yarn about Texas.
0:04.9	Or should we do our actual show? We should do our actual show.
0:07.5	I think we should try to do an actual show.
0:15.2	Hello and welcome to Optimist Economy. I'm Catherine.
0:18.1	I'm Robin.
0:19.0	And on this show, we believe the U.S. economy can be better,
0:21.3	and we talk about how to get there one problem and solution at a time.
0:31.6	Starting today with an announcement that we have a newsletter. If you go to
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0:41.7	You can read letters that we get from listeners like you about the shows that we've produced.
0:47.3	You can also go to buy me a coffee.com and find Optimist Economy and support us with your dollars,
0:53.0	which we will absolutely accept
0:55.1	because as we are learning, it costs money to produce a show.
0:59.0	Turns out.
0:59.7	Turns out.
1:00.6	Turns out in a capitalist economy.
1:02.5	It turns out.
1:02.7	Bummer.
1:03.2	I should have seen it coming.
1:04.8	You should have seen it exactly.
1:07.2	Also, if you like this podcast and we would like to keep doing it, tell someone about it,
1:11.6	maybe two people about it and review us on Apple Podcasts.
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