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Menendez announces bill to help struggling parents and cut child poverty
Jersey Journal ^ | March 26, 2019

Posted on 03/26/2019 10:13:18 AM PDT by SMGFan

Legislation aimed to help struggling families and cut child poverty by nearly 40 percent was announced by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez at a Union City press conference Monday.

“The American Family Act is the kind of bold action we need to give more low-income children, and especially children of color, a fighting chance of making it into the middle class,” the senator said in the playground of Union City Day Care Center on 47th Street.

“We pay both a heavy moral and economic price for leaving too many children behind,” Menendez said while standing in front of dozens of young children who he called “the country’s most valuable asset.” He said we cannot “sit idly by while the American dream becomes a myth. You can work toward a dream. You can’t work toward a myth.” The proposed legislation would create a new Child Tax Credit of $300 per month per child under 6 years old, up from the current $2,000 per year. It would also expand the Child Tax Credit for children under 17 to $250 per month, also up from $2,000 per year. The multifaceted bill would be pinned to inflation, so it would maintain the same value going forward.

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Is a factor in "child poverty" is families having an additional child far too soon and when they cannot afford another kid?
1 posted on 03/26/2019 10:13:18 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

And the law should allow the father to stay in the home.


2 posted on 03/26/2019 10:15:06 AM PDT by abclily
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To: SMGFan

The Earned Income Tax Credit on Steroids?

Oh wait, the EITC is already on Steroids.


3 posted on 03/26/2019 10:17:34 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: SMGFan

Handouts don’t work. Period.

It has been established - SCIENTIFICALLY — that to avoid poverty, people need only do 2 things:

1) Get (and stay) married before having kids
2) Get a full time job.

People who do this have a poverty rate of something like 8%. Literally 92% of families who do this are in the middle class.

THIS should be the basis of public policy, NOT gibsmedat.


4 posted on 03/26/2019 10:19:31 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: SMGFan

“MORE FREE SH**!”


5 posted on 03/26/2019 10:20:05 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: SMGFan

Beware a Dimocrat bearing free government handouts to those who haven’t earned anything.


6 posted on 03/26/2019 10:22:01 AM PDT by Ron H. (Gab.ai)
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To: Ron H.

Does the plan include sending them to the Dominican Republican so he can fly down there and have “Fun” with them for money....


7 posted on 03/26/2019 10:25:20 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: SMGFan

Taking money from those who work and giving it to those who don’t will not lift anyone out of poverty.


8 posted on 03/26/2019 10:27:29 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: SMGFan

How many of those kids are living in a home with both parents who are married to each other? That’s where the problem is. The government is not there to finance anyone’schildren. That is the duty of their parents.


9 posted on 03/26/2019 10:28:00 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Cut child poverty by 40%?? 40 is a failing grade in any academic environment, and this child hooker hack should know it. Make it 100%, bob or just go away.


10 posted on 03/26/2019 10:29:52 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: SMGFan

Why don’t we get rid of the corrupted teachers unions and actually give the ghettos a little education.


11 posted on 03/26/2019 10:32:04 AM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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The best way to “cut child poverty” is to build a wall and stop importing it from Mexico and points south.


12 posted on 03/26/2019 10:40:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: SMGFan

Don’t need to know what this child rapist has to say.


13 posted on 03/26/2019 10:48:30 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: SMGFan

“Mo’ money. Mo’ money. Mo’ money....”

Until there is no mo’ money.


14 posted on 03/26/2019 10:58:46 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: I want the USA back

It is unbelievable to me that people dont understand this. Subsidize tou get more (poverty) tax you get less(wealth)


15 posted on 03/26/2019 11:02:39 AM PDT by genghis
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“Legislation aimed to help struggling families and cut child poverty by nearly 40 percent was announced by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez at a Union City press conference Monday.”

I wonder how much of that will go to support illegal aliens?


16 posted on 03/26/2019 11:07:19 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: headstamp 2
Hey Menendez...


17 posted on 03/26/2019 11:54:37 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: abclily

Hey I want reparations for back when I was busting my ass to feed my family and no one bailed my ass out. I made the decision to have kids and I was the one responsible for feeding, clothing and housing them..........not the taxpayer!
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What the hell is going on, all these GD democrats want taxpayers to be on the hook for illegals and those that have kids and don’t want to be responsible for them financially........also mainly illegals.


18 posted on 03/26/2019 12:25:17 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: SMGFan; vette6387; bitt

All these politicians, MSM loons, and Hollyweird Libs, who profess in front of cameras to feel so badly for all the poor here and all over the world, should open their own bank accounts and donate 75% of everything they have to be distributed to the poor they helped to make poor.


19 posted on 03/26/2019 12:46:35 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Mastador1

You are correct. I was thinking only about U.S. citizens. Sorry.


20 posted on 03/26/2019 12:48:11 PM PDT by abclily
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