New York would give Medicaid recipients a one-time $1,800 grant when they have a baby under a first-in-the-nation bill filed Thursday.
The proposal from Senate Budget and Revenue Committee Chairman Andrew Gounardes (D) comes as more states experiment with no-strings-attached payments and tax credits to fight child poverty, an idea that gained traction during the Covid-19 pandemic but has faced backlash from conservatives.
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