The Government Helps Families With Three Kids

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Inmy was thinking, i would like to have two kids, not three. The talk that sultan and haydi ended up having about baby number three is sort of like the inverse of how it often goes over here. If we want to build s and you would like only two children, you don't really get too much support from the government. But with three children, you get much more. So even when you want to start your life, you have to decide how much you would like from the start.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán traveled to Texas for CPAC this week. Back home, he’s trying to fight population decline by paying some citizens to have more kids. But a real solution involves one weird trick Hungary — and US conservatives — hates.

This episode was reported and produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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