Perhaps since there was a grand available ($10-$20/person, as the article says) the numbers were significantly skewed. At 20$/person this totals $4,000M. Altho

Perhaps since there was a grand available ($10-$20/person, as the article says) the numbers were significantly skewed. At 20$/person this totals $4,000M. Although this doesn't mean sterilizations didn't happen, I'd be very interested to read more about this, preferably from a better source. If it happened, I've never heard of it and neither did many people I know, meaning it probably didn't get the kind of publicity this kind of Nazi-tier mass-sterilization programme should have gotten.