By Rick Kahler, originally published at Financial Awakenings.
If you are under 50, will Social Security still be there when you retire?
The answer starts with a number, 2.1, that demographers call the replacement rate. When women have an average of about 2.1 children, a country’s population stays level. Below that, without immigration, the population shrinks.
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