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Team Trump Drafts Dystopian Plan to Get Women to Have More Babies (newrepublic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

mothers that $5,000 “baby bonus” that Trump promised during the campaign season

5K isn't going to go far for birthing and raising a child.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We used to have a "baby bonus" payment about 20 years ago in Australia. It made very little difference to birth rates and was derisively called the "plasma TV bonus". Turns out that even 20 years ago a small lump sum of cash wasn't enough to persuade people to sign up for a lifetime of expenses and responsibilities by having more kids. It was just a handout to middle class families that could already afford to have kids, which is why it was scrapped.

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