Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act has destroyed so many families. It had a contra effect on household creation by allowing states to use money that could go to children and moms to build Family Courthouses and ramp up enforce of support orders as a way to shift the burden from state and society (rich taxpayers) to working families who could use the help.
Now these same people who advocated for this act to end the welfare queen and “welfare as we know it” want to end no fault divorce, women to have more children and ban contraception and abortion.
Don't know much about childcare policy but wouldn't any x dollar amount of benefits given as paid family leave be better utilized as a cash transfer (maybe child tax credit) since the policy is not neutral between different preferences?
Outstanding, Kathryn! In my view, we should bypass the middleman (states) with a federal guaranteed income of $15k/yr. per adult, plus $5k per child.
The evidence around the income guarantee for children is so large too!
I'm for universal minimum income for children too!
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act has destroyed so many families. It had a contra effect on household creation by allowing states to use money that could go to children and moms to build Family Courthouses and ramp up enforce of support orders as a way to shift the burden from state and society (rich taxpayers) to working families who could use the help.
Now these same people who advocated for this act to end the welfare queen and “welfare as we know it” want to end no fault divorce, women to have more children and ban contraception and abortion.
Don't know much about childcare policy but wouldn't any x dollar amount of benefits given as paid family leave be better utilized as a cash transfer (maybe child tax credit) since the policy is not neutral between different preferences?
The child care market is a failure, so it partly addresses the symptom but does nothing for a cure and the market will deteriorate further.