{"id":1383688,"date":"2022-03-16T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383688"},"modified":"2022-03-16T09:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:21:48","slug":"taipei-mayor-offers-cash-to-encourage-young-couples-to-marry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taipei-mayor-offers-cash-to-encourage-young-couples-to-marry\/","title":{"rendered":"Taipei Mayor Offers Cash to Encourage Young Couples to Marry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaipei-mayor-offers-cash-to-encourage-young-couples-to-marry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383688&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je awarded at least one local couple a cash prize of\u00a0$1,753 on Monday for agreeing to marry by the end of the year, as part of a Taiwanese government campaign to boost the nation\u2019s flagging birth rate, the <em>Taipei Times<\/em> reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2022\/03\/15\/2003774820#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIn%20the%20past%2025%20years,are%20single%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said\">said<\/a> he \u201cwishes all lovers get married and live happily ever after\u201d on March 14, while presiding over a lottery prize award ceremony at Taipei City Hall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The event was scheduled to coincide with a locally observed holiday known as \u201cWhite Day,\u201d which is \u201ca Japanese observance related to Valentine\u2019s Day,\u201d according to the <em>Taipei Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper on Tuesday detailed the marriage scheme promoted by Taipei municipal leaders one day earlier, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The cash lottery program is for couples married this year who both must be Taipei residents to qualify. Ten cash prizes of NT$50,000 [USD $1,753] each [are to be drawn] every month, five cash prizes of NT$100,000 [USD $3,506] each are to be drawn every season and 10 cash prizes of NT$200,000 [USD $7,012] are to be drawn this year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The government of Taipei, which is the national capital of Taiwan, chose to offer government-backed incentives for marriage as a way to combat Taiwan\u2019s troubling birth rate. Taipei Mayor Ko told reporters Taiwan\u2019s national marriage rate for 2021 was the lowest figure recorded in the past 50 years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe nation registered about 114,000 marriages last year, including about 11,000 couples in Taipei,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ko further revealed, \u201cOnly about 2 percent of births in Taiwan occurred outside of marriage, and most couples only have children after they marry, so the city government wants to encourage young people to marry as the first step to solving the low birthrate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Taipei Times<\/em> paraphrased Ko\u2019s explanation \u201cthat the low birthrate is not caused by young married couples unwilling to have children, but rather by young people unwilling to get married.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past 25 years, the percentage of single residents aged 40 or older rose from 12 percent to 35 percent and now about one-third of the city\u2019s residents aged 40 or older are single,\u201d Taipei\u2019s mayor told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s population <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/4109880\">shrank<\/a> for the first time in modern history in 2020, Taiwan\u2019s Interior Ministry announced in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBirths last year [in 2020] plunged to 165,000, down seven percent from 2019. Deaths also overtook births for the first time, pushing the island\u2019s overall population down 0.2 percent to 23.56 million,\u201d Agence France-Presse (AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20210108-taiwan-population-fell-for-first-time-in-2020\">reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je awarded at least one local couple a cash prize of\u00a0$1,753 on Monday for agreeing to marry by the end of the year, as part of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}