If you scroll to the bottom of the article, they post their sources, including studies published in peer reviewed journals. I’m sure most of us see this headline and go, “Duh,” but here we have hard data. Every time our billionaire and political overlords wring their hands about birthrates, the collective response from all of us should be, “fuck you, pay me, or kick rocks.”
Rent takes all surplus value, that’s it’s function.
Yeah, I kept telling the useful idiots that paying workers more will just result in more money for their landlords.
They didn’t listen.
If we want more, we have to raise taxes on the ownership class.