Book called the inheritance which follows a family centered in north dakota that carries a very rare genetic mutation that guarantees alzheimers disease. I am really pleased to say that with me today is lindsays father, dean, was a central figure in my book. Lindsay is speaking today, as well, about some of the experiences that her family andna she, personally, have gone through with all timers disease. When i think back to the first time i met members of the demo familyem in 2009 it really feels like im reviewing the notes that i took on someones elses life and we did not know each other and i did not know anything about usas timers disee or how widespread it is or how lethalal it is and i was just a journalist who is on an assignment in pittsburgh and i went into their hotel room and spent a couple of hours and when i came out it was like i had gone through the looking glass. I was completely blown away by their story and what they were going through and for me i would never be the s
Welcome to brookings. Richard reeves, the gentlemen to my right not politically, but to my right. And i codirect a center here called the center on children and families which we are extremely pleased to do. Were pleased to be holding this event, as well, about an old policy idea, which is often called the childrens allowance, a species of guaranteed annual income with some new twists. Why would we be concerned about a childrens allowance, the idea of giving a guaranteed cash benefit to families. I think there are a lot of reasons but i think two are predominant. One has always been a good reason to do it and that is it costs a lot of money to raise a child. At least a quarter of a million dollars, estimates vary greatly. Wealthy families spend more and so forth. But it is a lot of money to raise children. And they are the future of society so it makes sense that we would subsidize families to try to compensate them for the money that they have to spend for children, because would the
Programs available to children and their parents. Welcome to black irookings. Along with richard reeves, the gentleman to my right, and i codirect the center here called the center on children and families which were extremely pleased to do. And were pleased to be holding this event as well. About an old policy idea which is often called the childrens allowance. A species of guaranteed annual income. With some new twists. Why would be concerned about the childrens allowance, the idea of giving a guaranteed cash benefit to families. And i think there are a lot of reasons but i think two are predominant. One has always been a good reason to do it, and that is it costs a lot of money to raise a child, at least a quarter of a million dollars. The estimates vary greatly. But it is a lot of money to raise children. And theyre the ffew future. Without kids we wouldnt have a future. The second is an issue of debate. Maybe well have some today about that. And that is since welfare reform in 96
We had a woman at the top of the democratic ticket for the first time. We had a billionaire at the top of the republican ticket who had a discourse of strong populism. Also in this campaign we saw differences from campaigns in the near past in that sex and race entered into the discourse in new and different ways. Sexism and racism in particular were overtly discussed by candidates in ways that were perpetrated by candidates in ways we had not seen in previous campaigns. Thats not to say previous campaigns did not have sexism and racism, but rarely did we hear those comments coming from the candidates themselves. In part, due to the campaign and how gender and race played into the campaign, we expect gender and race to play large roles in the 45th president ial administration. We already see, for example in terms of policy, donald trump promising to make an executive order to build a wall along the u. S. Mexican border. We also saw responses from Civil Society with regard to gender and
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