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...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. That's one reason politicians haven't been willing to expend a lot of political capital...
...almost positive we’ll have a reunion if John is elected. And if he’s not elected, we might have a reunion anyway,” Rand says. “After John accepted the Democratic nomination, in one of the interviews the camera panned in on him and he was holding an Electras record and he winked and said to the reporter, ‘I’ve heard a little about a reunion.’ There’s nothing I’d rather do than play at John Kerry?...
...meantime, there will be a reunion of sorts when Rand and Prouty perform on Wolf Blitzer Reports on CNN today at 5:00 p.m. “It will be the first public performance by any combination of the Electras in 43 years, so we’re working on it,” says Rand...
...tell you that the four founding members of the band are probably behind John Kerry,” says Rand. “And we’re doing a little word play here, but what we call the Electral E-L-E-C-T-R-A-L College are overwhelmingly for Kerry, in spite of the fact that he’s a Yale graduate. But we don’t have much choice, do we? They’re all Yale graduates. Anyway that was a 10-to-3 vote...
Come Nov. 2, Prouty, Rand, Lang and the rest of the nation will decide whether they’ll be sharing the inauguration stage with Kerry, or no more than a pub pint...