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The Real Third Rail in Politics

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

In this week’s Acton Commentary, Jennifer Roback Morse wonders why no one is talking about the Forbidden Topic in the Social Security debate. That taboo subject is the declining birth rate. Jennifer Roback Morse writes that “the collapse in the fertility levels, particularly striking among the most educated women in society, is a contributing factor to the insolvency of our entitlement programs.”

Read the entire commentary here.

Posted by Jordan J. Ballor in Business and Society at 08:07 | Comments (9) | Trackback

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