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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Cecilia Nowell

The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’

Two woman sit in front of a baby, naked except for a diaper, on a paper-covered examining table.
Dr Mona Hanna (right) talks with Flint resident Courtney Dudley, 29, while examining her daughter, Isabella Evans, in Flint on 14 April 2016. Photograph: Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press/Zuma via Alamy

When Angela Sintery first learned about Rx Kids, a program for new mothers in her home town of Flint, Michigan, she thought someone must be trying to scam her.

“I had some teacher friends that kept sending me links saying: ‘You need to apply for this. It’s a brand-new program. We think you qualify,’” Sintery said. But it seemed too good to be true.

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