Welcome to brookings. My name is ron haskins, im the codirector along with Richard Reeves of the center on children and family serving brookings. Today we are releasing the 29th volume of the future of children. When i read that and we added these up, i almost died of exhaustion. It takes a lot to put these volumes up weve been doing this 10 or 11 years. This is the 27th policy brief. We have produced a lot of work. In this volume in policy brief we addressed vital issues of how to achieve broadscale impacts with social programs. We focused for several years on evidencebased policy, on developing programs that high quality evaluations show are capable of producing impacts on important child and family outcomes. The goal we are promoting today is to ensure highquality programs could have a broad range of impacts. We are trying to help as Many Community as possible to build up their capacity to help families provide Effective Services for their children, especially their families and chi
Crumbs to the people. Cspan is live on the National Mall today in washington, d. C. To hear from speakers at the march for life rally. Mike johnson and new jersey congressman chris smith who is the chair of the prolife caucus are going to be this is the 51st annual march with live coverage here on cspan. Welcome. Im jeanniean, im honored to serve as president of march for life. On behalf of our whole march for life team i would like to welcome you to the 51st march for life, the largest annual human rights demonstration in the world. [applause] well be joined in a minute for the pledge of allegiance by Jeffrey Lance of the Catholic University of america were going to join together to sing our National Anthem led by threetime grammy nominee dan goki. O say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleamingt stars through the p fight oer the ramparts weatched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave pr
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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