US city offers $1,000 to pregnant women amid falling birth rates

17 comments

1. It is Philadelphia.

2. Cool. Now it will only cost $14k to have a kid instead of $15k. What a relief!

3. That wouldn’t even cover my deductible.

4. Bad headline. Birth rates is not the target factor, failed pregnancies is.

5. This won’t even cover the hospital bill.

6. So Philadelphia has an infant mortality of about 7.8 per 1,000 vs 5.6 of the whole USA. The data shows this is mostly due to premature births. I’d expect some environmental factors to be the main cause. It’s very unlikely the money would help unless it’s enough for the poor mothers to live somewhere else.

7. That won’t even make a dent in the hospital bill

8. Gotta breed dem workers for da coal mines! Those billionaires aren’t going to shovel their own coal!

9. Damn now I gotta read an article.

10. This is why’ve never bought into the hand maids tale. Like I get it’s not the point of the series, but the initial reason that the crazy Christians were able to take over was because people weren’t having kids anymore.

    From a purely practical stand point, it would make way more sense just to pay women to have kids.

11. $18,000 total for a full 9 month pregnancy and until your child turns 1 year old.

    This would incentivse couples to have kids who already want to. $18k is better than nothing.

12. r/thanksimcured

13. A much better solution would be to fix our broken health care system.

14. Limit to those with IQ>115.

15. What a trash headline. The money is not to entice people to have kids, it’s a research pilot program to see whether funds like this can reduce income and racial disparities in birth outcomes such as the infant mortality rate. No one is saying “we will pay you $1,000 to get pregnant.” From the program’s website: 

    “The Philly Joy Bank is a guaranteed income pilot that will provide 250 pregnant Philadelphians with no strings attached cash with the goal of improving birth outcomes.
    The Philly Joy Bank was developed by the Philadelphia Community Action Network (CAN), which is a collective impact stakeholder group that aims to reduce racial disparities in infant mortality.”

16. Comedy

17. Second trimester to first birthday… wouldn’t that be about 6 months of pregnancy + 12 months = about 18 months of payment so $18k?

    I would definitely love an extra $1k a month that could go to daycare costs

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