Schumer is right that falling birthrates are bad. He’s wrong that immigration is the solution

Published November 17, 2022 12:00am ET



Chuck Schumer has made an intriguing comment.

It’s great that Schumer has noted falling birthrates and said that it’s a problem serious enough to warrant a policy response. This isn’t a popular view, especially on his side of the aisle. Paul Krugman says worries about low birthrates are just racist or dominionist or something.

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