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For the nearly 80 years, a large number of newborn babies in Finland have been sleeping inside a cardboard box. Since 1938, the Finnish government has offered expectant, low-income mothers a free baby box that doubles as a bassinet, along with bedding, a coat, diapers, a thermometer, and a few other new-baby essentials.
The initiative began as an attempt [...].