By the summer, the French government will send every 29-year-old a letter urging them to consider family planning “before it’s too late.” The move forms part of a 16-point national strategy aimed at reversing falling birth rates and easing long-term concerns about funding an aging population. Officials frame the initiative as an information campaign rather than a directive, but the symbolism of the state writing to citizens about their biological clock has already stirred debate.

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Pennsylvania Reps. Madeleine Dean and John Joyce have proposed bipartisan legislation that would allow nonprofit public libraries to continue to serve as passport acceptance.