Beyond Today - Is it ok to pay women to have more children?
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Hungarian women with four or more children won’t have to pay income tax for the rest of their working lives, according to a plan announced by the country’s prime minister Viktor Orban. He says it’s to reverse Hungary’s falling population rate, critics argue it’s a way of controlling immigration. We speak to the BBC’s Nick Thorpe, who lives and works in Budapest with his 5 children. And we also hear from author Thomas Chatterton Williams who is writing a book on racial identity, about what links this Hungarian policy to the global far right.
Producers: Philly Beaumont & Georgia Coan
Mixed by Nicolas Raufast
Editor: John Shields
Published on Tuesday, 12th February 2019.
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