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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robin Buller

Trump is trying to pay his way into a US baby boom. Experts say it won’t work

silhouette of a pregnant women standing to side by window
Americans face a swath of expensive hurdles that disincentivize them from having large families – or families at all. Photograph: Posed by model; Alejandro Franco Garcia/Getty Images

One of Donald Trump’s priorities for his second term is getting Americans to have more babies – and the White House has a new proposal to encourage them to do so: a $5,000 “baby bonus”.

The plan to give cash payments to mothers after delivery shows the growing influence of the “pronatalist” movement in the US, which, citing falling US birthrates, calls for “traditional” family values and for women – particularly white women – to have more children.

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