Socialist Jacobin Magazine: If fertility continues to sink, the welfare state, as it is currently constructed, will be in mortal danger.

Even the Comrades at Jacobin worry about the coming viability of the Welfare State with a declining birth rate....

A future characterized by welfare state insolvency, economic contraction, and sluggish innovation is not good for anyone. But low birth rates also pose a specific political challenge for socialists.

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— Jacobin (@jacobin) July 16, 2025