• SoupBrick@pawb.social
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    16 hours ago

    Copying my comment from another post with this same article:

    The US’ population growth has been sustained by immigration. Guess what is being discouraged by the actions of the current administration?

    Who tf is going to have money for children when there is so much financial uncertainty and the job market is this bad?

    https://www.visaverge.com/immigration/u-s-immigrant-population-drives-all-growth-for-first-time-since-1850/

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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      15 hours ago

      Emma Waters, with the conservative-leaning Heritage Foundation, agrees it’s time for a national conversation about birth rates and the choices families are making. “We’re going to have more adults than we have children to replace them, and that will heavily impact things like our military readiness, GDP and economic growth in the United States.”

      It’s almost like the Heritage foundation didn’t at all think through their push for rabid anti-immigration policies, combined with their perceived necessity for increased breeding on behalf of the poors.

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        4 hours ago

        Oh, they’ve thought it through.

        There’s a reason abortions were made illegal.

        There’s a reason they’ve made databases on women’s fertility.

        If they can force “able bodied” medicaid recipients to work on farms, they will force unproductive able uterus women to be the livestock.