Cash transfer proposal has downsides for child poverty

EurekAlert ^ | 04/12/2022 | WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

[aimhigh]

A proposal to provide monthly payments to most U.S. parents, similar to those under the pandemic relief program, would likely worsen poverty for children of single mothers, a study has found.

The Family Security Act proposed by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) aims to cut child poverty by a third by providing most parents with monthly payments of $350 for each child under age 6 and $250 for each older child. The act is supposed to pay for itself by streamlining other child benefits and aid for low-income families.

A Washington State University study published in Economic Modeling found that while the proposal would likely alleviate child poverty overall, it would cause poverty to rise among single-mother families from 26.5% to 45.5%. And the number of children living in deep poverty would triple.

[Tell It Right]

The more we pay single mothers to have babies the more babies will grow up in single parent homes.

[truthkeeper]

Romney wooing the 47%.

[dynachrome]

My rent-a-child business will do well.

[Chicory]

The reason it will cause these problems:

>> While the proposal is similar to the pandemic program in that it will offer monthly payments to most parents, it would replace the Earned Income Tax Credit that low- and middle-income working parents receive when filing their taxes.

[winterystorm]

I HAVE A YOUNG COUSIN WHO DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL IN 10TH GRADE. She just finished having her 4th child and still lives at home with her parents. She refuses to leave. She is collecting welfare and she has no wish to go to work.

This is how this young kids think.
Give me money.

[Little Ray]

If you can’t feed ‘em don’t breed ‘em.
Besides Biden is importing their replacements over the Southern Border right this very second.

[ridesthemiles]

What an enormous slap to people who never had kids-—for whatever reason.

[Trillian]

The democrats love people dependent on them.