Would a baby bonus boost the birth rate?
Tangle
Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has heard a range of proposals to increase the fertility rate in the United States. While taking questions in the Oval Office on Tuesday, April 22, President Donald Trump expressed support for a “baby bonus” that would pay $5,000 per delivery to the women who have children, calling it a “good idea.” Additionally, advocates and policy experts have pitched the White House on scholarship allocations for married people or parents, new government funding for education on conception, and a “National Medal of Motherhood” awarded to women with six or more children.
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| 0:55.2 | views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about fertility |
| 1:04.6 | rates and boosting the birth rate in America. As you might have noticed, this is becoming a pretty |
| 1:10.4 | big policy discussion |
| 1:11.8 | here. There are some proposals on the table, or I guess I shouldn't say on the table, being |
| 1:16.8 | rumored about with the Trump administration and some proposals that have been tried that are |
| 1:22.7 | attempting to be resurrected right now. So we're going to break down some arguments out there about how to |
| 1:28.0 | address a falling fertility rate with public policy prescriptions, share some views from |
| 1:33.4 | the right and the left, and then I'm going to share my take. Before we do, though, I want to give |
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