Posted on 10/06/2020 12:09:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Singapore will offer a one-time payment to aspiring parents during the coronavirus pandemic.
The country's deputy prime minister said the incentive would help reassure people who face financial pressure and are worried about their jobs. "We have received feedback that Covid-19 has caused some aspiring parents to postpone their parenthood plans," Heng Swee Keat told lawmakers on Monday.
"This is fully understandable, especially when they face uncertainty with their income," he added.
Heng said the payment would help parents with expenses, but he did not confirm how much would be paid out.
Despite a largely successful public health response to the pandemic, Singapore's economy has been thrown into a deep recession.
GDP likely shrank 12.6% in the second quarter compared to the same time the previous year, marking "the steepest drop on record," according to economists.
Singapore has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, a statistic that successive governments have attempted unsuccessfully to reverse. The fertility rate now stands at just 1.14 births per woman, according to its national statistics body.
That places it level with Hong Kong, according to the World Bank. Only South Korea and the US territory of Puerto Rico have lower rates.
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Just make the cable porn channels run for free, that should help.
That would probably have the opposite effect.
Singapore tried this years ago, when they realized their birth rate had fallen behind that of larger neighbors like Indonesia. It didn’t work then.
This pandemic has been great for my sexlife, no dates just rose wine and bed. Had a gal I was trying to go from 1st to 2nd base, she got up, I thought the game was over but she was rounding third and started to take her clothes off.
>> ... but she was rounding third and starting to take her clothes off...
Sounds like the play by play of an inside-the-park home run.
Sounds like the play by play of an inside-the-park home run
It was a grand slam
Power failures work wonders
They’ll need a time machine. The pandemic is over. They should have started making a baby 12 months ago.
I can help...
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