lol. Like making a rent payment solely from the change found in your couch cushions.
This does not even cover the costs for the birth in hospital.
It’s good because raising a child only costs five grand, as we’re all aware.
Nothing like a $5k bonus for accepting a half million liability (at least).
I have a modest proposal that might take care of that liability
Yeah, the worst part is it’ll just incentivize idiots to breed.
Those are the ones they want
They love the poorly educated.
I doubt that even covers the cost of drugs for giving birth.
that number needs 2 more zeros
What’s with the price of $5,000? First it were these checks, and now this…
PR testing how much to buy any slice of goodwill.
I want to say “that’s a pathetic amount” but given how many ads I saw offering “cash in hand” for people to refinance their car loan right around Christmas… I’m not confident Americans will turn this down.
Economically, birth rates need to go up.
But environmentally, it’s not a good picture.
And those that are uneducated or downright stupid will fall for it. Those that aren’t, will continue not to because nobody can afford to have kids and they know 5k doesn’t do shit.
100%. I think I read over the course of life from 0 to 18 years of age it costs about 100K to raise a kid.
Try $300k these days. Double it if you’re in California.
Poland went trough this a decade ago. First they offered a small bonus after birth. This didn’t impact the birth rate at all. Next they introduced a monthly allowance per child. This also didn’t impact the birth rate at all. Monthly allowance did lower child poverty rates though.
“im gonna pay you 5 grand to creampie your wife for the economy”
Once again right wing policies don’t match up with what their stated goals are. This won’t even cover the hospital bill for delivering the kid, let alone what it costs to raise them.
If the right wing actually wanted to raise birth rates, they’d be offering universal healthcare, at least triple the current minimum wage, free preschool, free college/trade school, substantial paid parental leave for both parents, actual sick time/PTO laws.
Not this insult
I am extremely dubious on these figures, given the cost of child care.
I’m not sure what this comment is responding to.
I was just posting rough numbers to agree with you, but think the figures cited in the article are extremely conservative.
Cost of raising a middle-income child in the US to age 18 (excludes college/university) is around $375,000 pre-cost increase due to the amazing economic changes. But hey, $5k sure sounds worth it! /s
How about they just stop cutting college aid and we call it even?
That’ll cover the cost of a child for a whole month.
And for the other 175 months you can just go f yourself because we care about fetuses, we do not care about children
