They knew the replacement rate was 2.1 babies and still consciously pushed the birth rate far below that. Now they are aggressively pushing it in the other direction.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if the government agency in charge of manipulating the population always needs to have something to do. They couldn&#x27;t just say, &quot;We&#x27;ve achieved our goal of 2 kids per family. Let&#x27;s go home!&quot;<p>I suspect that the new initiative to increase the birth rate will drive it to at least 3 births per couple, and then there will be a new expensive initiative to reduce it again. That is how you create jobs.