One proposal would reserve 30 percent of prestigious, government-backed scholarships for applicants who are married or have children.
Another would give a $5,000 cash “baby bonus” to every American mother after delivery.
A third calls on the government to fund programs that educate women on their menstrual cycles — in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive.
There is also a split within the administration as to how to proceed, with religious conservatives pushing for more committed marriages and large families, while others who identify strictly as “pronatalists” looking at a greater variety of methods, including new reproductive technologies, to produce more babies.
One already announced policy change will prioritise transportation funding in areas with higher than average birth and marriage rates. Another, due in mid-May, will recommend ways to make in vitro fertilization more readily available and affordable.
For now, the internal debate continues as it’s not yet clear what kind of policies will best incentivize people to have more babies — or whether those kinds of policy incentives are effective at all.