{"id":5964,"date":"2025-11-10T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:56:24","slug":"innovation-the-baby-stipend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/innovation-the-baby-stipend\/","title":{"rendered":"INNOVATION: The Baby Stipend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A program in Flint, Mich., offers\u00a0women $1,500 as soon as their pregnancies are confirmed, and another $500 a month after their babies are born.\u00a0 \u00a0The result has been lowered rates of maternal postpartum depression, stabilized families\u2019\u00a0housing, improved infant outcomes,\u00a0and a\u00a0saving\u00a0of\u00a0millions\u00a0of dollars in\u00a0Neonatal Intensive Care Unit\u00a0spending.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: \u2018We\u2019re not OK with our babies being born into poverty\u2019<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/15\/rx-kids-flint-michigan-pregnancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/15\/rx-kids-flint-michigan-pregnancy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9798298985765\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A program in Flint, Mich., offers\u00a0women $1,500 as soon as their pregnancies are confirmed, and another $500 a month after their babies are born.\u00a0 \u00a0The result has been lowered rates of maternal postpartum depression, stabilized families\u2019\u00a0housing, improved infant outcomes,\u00a0and a\u00a0saving\u00a0of\u00a0millions\u00a0of dollars in\u00a0Neonatal Intensive Care Unit\u00a0spending. The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: \u2018We\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/innovation-the-baby-stipend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;INNOVATION: The Baby Stipend&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,40,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}