Trump s proposed 5000 baby bonus isn t much of a Mother s Day present

Get the Full StoryOur pronatalist President s 5,000 baby bonus may sound swell, but here are three better ways to use that funding to improve the lives of America s moms and their children.

President Trump s proposed baby bonus would have come in really handy at chez Guy Birken 15 years ago. Money was a bit of an issue for my family when we welcomed our first child in 2010. We d moved to Indiana from Ohio in June of that year so my husband could take a higher paying job. I d left my own job as a high school English teacher. Our baby was born in late August, making it impossible to find a teaching job in our new town.

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