Posted on 05/19/2021 4:21:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The check won’t arrive until mid-July, but Katrina Peters already knows what she’ll do with her Child Tax Credit payments. The 20-year-old mother of three has applied to work as a driver with a food delivery app, and the extra cash is earmarked for repairing, registering and insuring her car.
“I just need to make sure it’s 100% and then I can start working and get an income,” Peters said, cradling her 3-week-old son, Armani. “That’s where it starts.”
The payments are a key part of Democrats’ COVID-19 aid bill passed in March, but for policymakers they are more than just an attempt to help families recover from the pandemic. The monthly checks of up to $300 per child for millions of families are part of an ambitious attempt to shrink child poverty and rethink the American social safety net in the process.
With an emphasis on direct, no-strings cash support, the payments are a deliberate departure from a system that for decades has tried to control how Americans spend their government assistance by funneling it to food, housing or child care. Peters is as free to use the cash on her car as she is to spend it on diapers.
The expanded CTC payments, which are due to begin going out July 15, are only meant to last a year, but architects and proponents aren’t trying to hide the fact that they want to make this permanent. The coronavirus pandemic, they say, laid bare the inadequacies of America’s support system and provided the political momentum to make lasting changes.
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The Associated Press needs to lose its position as a reputable organization. They are propaganda.
Subsidize something, and you’ll get more of it.
Nope.
It will increase the number of crack addicts though.
Surely she is already collecting welfare, food stamps, Medicaid etc etc.
They haven’t been reputable in my house in a number of years.
Nail salons, TJMaxx stores, Amazon delivery folks, better all get ready!! Mommies are going to be doing a LOT more shopping!
Child poverty? Whatever.
More low IQ baby-daddy babies. What a great idea!
They already did. Over 20 years ago. A good thing the Israelis bombed their offices.
With so many businesses cutting hours due to a lack of workers, this ought to work out well.
The money line, of course, is “It’s an issue of trust. We trust these families to do the right thing.” Of course we’ll never see a study of the amounts spent like this woman plans on vs. the amount spent on tattoos and beer. What a breakthrough! Instead of making at least a nominal effort to ensure that my hard earned taxes are spent on things like food, shelter, and child care, we’re just going to hose down the poor with cash and hope for the best. Why didn’t we think of this before?!?
No
“Can monthly cash payments cut child poverty by nearly half?”
No.
No mention of a father ???
Can stealing from one group to reward another ever be moral?
To the title.
No, because the parents would blow it on drugs, booze, cigarettes, and lottery tickets.
Here is a snapshot of LibTaints attitude about taxpayers wanting accountability for their money: https://people.eou.edu/socwelf/readings/week-7/put-me-in-charge/
They used one of my Letters to the Editor at the Waco Trib (cherry picked, of course) to question our RIGHT to not have our money wasted.
Exactly.
Those hungry children at schools, the ones we feed subsidized breakfast and lunch and send backpacks home with them filled with food for nights and weekends so they will have something to eat, well their parents are getting food stamps, WIC, medicaid and Section 8 housing.
What are they doing with that money.
Sure it can- look how well Welfare worked in the ‘war on poverty’!
We have more people on Welfare than ever, and growing.
AT LEAST 50% of the minority population gets a government check from Welfare or a government job.
I believe I see a problem right here, with that.
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