Mitigating inequality will definitely increase the ability of families to have more kids if they want - including paying students after 10th grade to go to either technical or academic school at the same level of income as provided to people on long term unemployment insurance ($13.25 per hour equivalent with 26 hour week), a working minimum wage of $14.50 per hour and a child tax credit of $1000 per month per child - paid with either wages or benefits as an offset to an employer paid net business receipts tax (aka subtraction value added tax). This scheme makes the employer or educator the paymaster rather than using the government to distribute funds (unless they are on LTIU - where the government would pay - as well as disability insurance above an LTIU level - where LTIU is no fault - meaning you get it if fired or if you quit.
Paying young people allows for us to return to the evolutionary framework for bearing children while preventing pecuniary existence for life. Schools would also provide childcare - maybe using other students as providers during the day in shifts. Total birth control.
The fourth factor is how we deal with inflation mitigation. Cost of living adjustments are by proportion of pay rather than an equal dollar amount regardless of wage. Prices, especially for housing, chase the 90th percentile of income - which is why things started getting worse in 1971 and have done so on a consistent basis, regardless of invention or economic conditions. No conspiracy, just bad maths.
I write books and do congressional comments on this stuff. See my blog at fiscalequity.blogspot.com for more complete treatments.
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