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State & Families: Friends or Foes? (Ryan McMaken) 2/5/26

We welcome back Ryan McMaken, editor-in-chief at the Mises Institute, to examine whether the state is a friend or a foe of families today. With birth rates steadily declining and many struggling to make ends meet, evidence suggests that families are in trouble. Is the federal government part of the solution or part of the problem?

Show Notes

Why “Pro-Family” Government Programs Don’t Increase the Fertility Rate

Families Are the Key to Building Alternatives to the State

Catholic Marriages in the USA Have Declined by 60% Since 2000

Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth…

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