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...relatively well, with fertility rates above 1.7. Yet nowhere in the European Union does fertility approach 2.1, the level needed to keep the population stable. "A people that doesn't have children, that grows old, is a people without a future," says Tiziano Treu, a former Italian Minister of Labor and Welfare who recently co-authored a bill aimed at boosting Italy's rock-bottom birth rate...
...problem has been looming for decades, and governments have responded with schemes to reform pension programs, raise retirement ages, increase labor participation rates and encourage the immigration of skilled workers. But politicians have been more bashful when it comes to urging people to have more babies. Low birth rates "will have a major impact on Europe's economic future," says Jonathan Grant, director of independent thinktank RAND Europe's Cambridge office and principal author of a study of European fertility released last year. "But there's a disconnect between the cycle of political elections and the generational cycle of demographics...
...said his village in the Sudan was raided by government troops, who killed—among others—a pregnant woman in labor and two blind elderly people who were unable...
...SHARPTON Minister and Democratic politician Bush must change the perception that he has divided the country. He should reach out beyond his normal circles. He should meet with the N.A.A.C.P., with labor leaders. He should not be so inflexible in terms of ideas and criticism. He's really got to take to heart the reasons people oppose...
...ROBERT B. REICH Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration We cannot be strong if we're coming apart. We can't have a vibrant democracy if we don't listen to one another. Reach out to those you disagree with. Give poorer Americans more opportunities to get ahead. Be a man of faith, if you wish, but don't use faith to justify your policies. Restore civility to public discourse and tolerance to public life...