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14 Ray Long and Michelle Manchir, “Thousands rally at Illinois Capitol—for a tax increase,” Chicago Tribune, April 21, 2010; available online at http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-04-21/news/ct-met-state-capitol-rally-taxincrease-020100421_1_sales-tax-tax-increase-income-tax.
15 Landon Thomas Jr., “Patchwork Pension Plan Adds to Greek Debt Woes,” New York Times, Mary 11, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes. com/2010/03/12/business/global/12pension.html.
16 Ibid.
17 BBC, “Greek Officials Strike Over Cuts,” February 4, 2010; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8497912.stm.
18 CNN, “Greek PM slams European Union amid crisis,” February 14, 2010; available online at http://articles.cnn.com/2010-02-14/world/greece.eu.crisis_1_european-union-van-rompuy-greece?_s=PM:WORLD.
19 Ian Traynor and Katie Allen, “Austerity Europe: Who Faces the Cuts,” The Guardian , June 11, 2010; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/11/europe-deficit-crisis-austerity-budgets.
20 Ibid.
21 Robert Samuelson, “The Welfare State’s Death Spiral,” syndicated column, May 10, 2010; available online at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/10/the_welfare_states_death_spiral_105503.html.
22 Remarks to the New York Times, Berlin, Germany, March 29, 2009; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/europe/30merkel.html?hp.
23 Luke Harding, “Germany agonises over 30% childless women,” The Guardian, January 27, 2006; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jan/27/germany.lukeharding.
24 Tristana Moore, “Baby Gap: Germany’s Birth Rate Hits Historic Low,” Time, May 23, 2010; available online at http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1991216,00.html.
25 Sacha Molitorisz, “Mama Mia: Won’t You Leave Home, Big Baby?” The Age, January 23, 2010; available online at http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/societyand-culture/mama-mia-wont-you-leave-home-big-baby-20100122-mqqa.html.
26 Ibid.
27 Statistics Canada, “2006 Census,” September 12, 2007; links to purchase report available online at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/070912/dq070912a-eng.htm.
28 Rachel Donadio, “Europe’s Young Grow Agitated Over Future Prospects,” New York Times, January 1, 2011; available online at http://www.nytimes. com/2011/01/02/world/europe/02youth.html.
29 Carl Mortished, “What do cars and cows have in common? No, not horns,” The Times, March 10, 2009; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5877416.ece.
30 Ibid.
31 Theodore Dalrymple, “Know Thyself,” City Journal, May 7, 2010; available online at http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0507td.html.
32 “G20 summit: Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel demand tough market regulations,” The Telegraph, May 17, 2011; available online at http://www.telegraph. co.uk/finance/g20-summit/5090442/G20-summit-Nicolas-Sarkozy-and-Angela-Merkel-demand-tough-market-regulations.html.
33 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Family database,” 2010; available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/61/42294015.xls.
34 Ibid.
35 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Family database,” 2010; facts available line at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/52/26/41920005.pdf.
36 Russell Shorto, “No Babies?” New York Times, June 29, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html?pagewanted=all.
37 Douglas A. McIntyre, “Memo To Congress: ‘Buy Land, They Ain’t Making Any More Of It,’” Time, January 28, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1874407,00.html.
38 International Monetary Fund, “World Economic Outlook,” (Chapter IV: Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: Why Reforms Pay Off) April 2003; available online at http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2003/01/pdf/chapter4.pdf.
39 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Economic Outlook No. 88 Annex Tables,” 2011;