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	Podcast:		Marketplace Morning Report
	Episode:		China offers parents $500 per child to help boost birth rate
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:06:59
	Publish Date:		2025-07-29 11:35:00
	Description:		From the BBC World Service: Parents in China are being offered a little extra help, about $500 a year for every child under three. It's the government's first nationwide subsidy in a bid to increase birth rates. State media says around 20 million families are eligible for the payments. But will it work? Plus, with northern Mexico in the middle of a severe drought, the country is falling behind on water deliveries to the U.S. promised by a treaty. The Trump administration isn't happy.
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