“We don’t have paid family leave in this country or subsidized child care,” she noted, adding that maternal mortality rates remain alarmingly high — a reality she believes that the administration should be prioritizing over population incentives.
“I’m one of those people that I feel the earth is overpopulated,” Haines continued. “They want more babies because it affects not only the workforce, but paying into entitlement programs,” she said, noting they’re missing the bigger picture.
She suggested that the administration focus on preparing for the rise of artificial intelligence, which she believes will have a greater long-term impact on social systems than birth rates.
Sunni Hostin chimed in as well, saying Americans should be asking not just what is being proposed, but why — and by whom.
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