university of chicago put out a study, austan. you are there and represent them. here is what the wall street journal said the next step in social spending. the child allowance welfare trap. democrats are deciding what to keep or cut in the $5 trillion spending bill. one proposal manchin need to excise. converting the child tax credit into a universal basic inincome. discourage work to escape poverty. the proposal is as we understand it in the bill. $3600 for a kid under the age of 6, $3,000 for a kid 6-17 going through the year 2025. there is more in this bile. bill. if you earn zero dollars in the year 2020 you will get $7200 for two children under the age of six.
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Low wages benefit employers at the expense of both workers and taxpayers.
January 14, 2021
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The country’s very low minimum wage comes at a high cost. And for taxpayers, it adds up to more than $100 billion a year.
That number comes from a new analysis of safety-net usage by Ken Jacobs, Ian Eve Perry, and Jenifer MacGillvary of UC Berkeley’s Labor Center. It identifies working families with at least one member who would get a raise if the federal minimum wage were lifted to $15 an hour, and finds that the government spends about $107 billion a year on Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), cash welfare, food stamps, and the earned-income tax credit for those families.
Ethnic minority farmer in Ha Giang finds way to escape poverty Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
25/12/2020 06:34 GMT+7
Sùng Diu Sì has been living in Vinh Son Village of Bac Quang District in Ha Giang, the mountainous province to the north of Vietnam, for 40 years.
Sùng Diu Sì checks on his longan orchard. Photo courtesy of Sùng Diu Sì
During his childhood he struggled because of poverty. He was born in a Mong ethnic minority family with seven children, living in a makeshift house. Their meals were often rice mixed with sweet potatoes and any vegetables they could find in the forest.