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Ryan: Americans need to have more babies
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Dec 15, 2017 10:15am |
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| Author | Scott Wong |
| News Date | Thursday, December 14, 2017 05:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) suggested Thursday that Americans need to have more babies or risk a collapse of popular entitlements like Medicare and Social Security.
“This is going to be the new economic challenge for America: people. Baby boomers are retiring — I did my part, but we need to have higher birth rates in this country,” Ryan, a father of three, told reporters as he riffed on how Republicans will tackle entitlement and welfare reform in 2018. “Baby boomers are retiring and we have fewer people following them in the workforce. |
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