Lol.
I can't even pay rent with that.
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$1,500 is still poverty...
It can cover the additional costs of being pregnant, assuming you have health coverage, keeping you from dropping into poverty
It could easily be enough to lift someone out of it.
Anyway, don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Most developed nations have a minimum of 6 months paid parental leave and reduced, if not free, costs on early childcare. America is a joke
Yes, which is why we need to strive to make it better.
They should pay for free birth control as well.
Many many insurance plans provide free birth control for women and pretty much any planned parenthood gives out free contraceptives for both men and women.
Its 1500$ per month of pregnancy or 1500$ when you get pregnant then 500$ per month.
I feel like there’s some unnecessary editorializing being done in the headline.
“Pays” is such a weird way of saying “providing a minimum of after-natal care for people that society generally doesn’t care about.” Sounds like a roundabout way of referencing the mythical “welfare queens.”