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Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - April 29, 2019 13:00 - 9 minutes - 8.73 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Bernie Sanders, a Senator in the United States and one of the front-runners in the campaign to be the Democratic presidential candidate, said on Twitter that it costs $12,000 to have a baby in his country. He compared that figure to Finland, where he said it costs $60. In this edition of More or Less, Tim Harford looks at whether Sanders has got his figures right. With Carol Sakala of US organisation Childbirth Connection and Mika Gissler of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland.
Producer: Darin Graham
Presenters: Tim Harford and Charlotte McDonald
Image: A newborn baby's hand.
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