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ANALYSIS: Before the election, Labor promised policies to lift the declining birthrate, but there is little evidence they will actually work.
Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, hospitals checking citizenship status, food assistance cuts and other measures in ...
The birth rate plummeted for the ninth consecutive year with more than two deaths for every baby born in 2024. Aware that to ...
To address the country's rapidly declining birthrate Japan's health ministry is all set to eliminate out-of-pocket payments ...
As the country faces the world’s lowest fertility rate, young adults’ attitudes are shifting about having children out of ...
In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in the country, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline in child births.
Japan considers making childbirth free to reverse dwindling birth rate - Government provides a subsidy for each birth but ...
The steering of monetary policy by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has a significant ... (From The Yomiuri Shimbun, May 9, 2025) Add TheJapanNews to your Google News feed. Core Inflation in Japan’s ...
"This policy change therefore, negatively impacts a significant part of the community resulting in undue stress and hardship. The reinstatement of winter fuel payments for pensioners should be ...
A petition calling for the government to rethink changes to the Winter Fuel Payments has been signed by more than 150,000 people, with a recent surge following speculation that the policy may be ...