Rx Kids: The Nation's First Cash Prescription Program for Moms and Babies
About Rx Kids
Rx Kids, founded by Dr. Mona Hanna, provides universal, unconditional cash support to pregnant women and new mothers in participating communities. Moms receive $1,500 during pregnancy, and babies get $500 per month for 6 or 12 months after birth. Launched in Flint, Michigan in 2024, the program has expanded to thousands of families, aiming to improve health, hope, and opportunity by alleviating financial stress during a critical period.
More potent than any prescribed pill, Rx Kids aims to improve health, hope, and opportunity.
- usernametaken29
Germany recently discussed raising health insurance premiums for families (because families cause higher costs). Instead of the stick we need to use the carrot. Everybody is asking why birth rates plummet. It’s simple. Having a family costs a fuckton of money. I personally know a bunch of well-off people who have decided against children since they don’t think they’ll be able to sustain any way of middle class existence with kids.
Having a program that supports mothers like this, cash, no strings attached, is awesome. The last thing people need is to jump 1000x bureaucratic hoops when they’re broke and have basically zero sleep.
Hats off, cool charity!
- drayfield
What a fantastic charity, I really love the idea.
- dominicq
Rx? Is it like Rx by Paul Le Roux, famous drug kingpin?
- GaryBluto
Such a strained metaphor designed to obscure the fact it's just taxpayer-funded welfare for expectant and new mothers without any background checks, drug testing, income limits or work requirements.