Impact would be transformative
The lawmakers continued: “The impact would be transformative: at a cost of approximately $60 billion annually, less than 10 percent of what we currently spend to subsidize wealth-building through the tax code, we can give every American a stake in our economy and agency over their future,” they said.
By their estimates, a child who gets $1,000 at birth and $2,000 every year since then would end up getting more than $46,000 by the time they turned 18, given an annual interest of three percent.
When Booker announced his presidential run in February 2019, Vox cited a study to say that the idea of baby bonds embraced by Booker, who ran for the 2020 presidential nomination, would almost entirely bridge the wealth gap between young Black and White people. Also, recent studies by Columbia University and Morningstar have found that the baby bonds program would reduce the racial wealth gap considerably among young American adults.
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There is no racial or ethnic group in American history that has made significant socio-economic success without first believing in their ability to do so. Most of them faced bias and discrimination at one time or another some more than others but all of them overcame adversity by plugging away, refusing to let the forces of bigotry get the best of them. That is why it is obscene to see the so-called allies of African Americans sell them a narrative that effectively immobilizes them, leaving them wallowing in victimhood.
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image captionMr Roe said staff were repeatedly paid late, but the matter got even worse when the pandemic started
A man who quit his job at a caravan company after 20 years has said he left because work turned into a nightmare in lockdown and the firm allegedly failed to make furlough payments.
Ian Roe said staff at Preston s Lunar Automotive had to use food banks and loan sharks in the last year amid claims £170,000 of wages was not paid.
Lunar Automotive said that was not a number which the company recognises .
The Unite union has called for an investigation of owner Nicholas Marks.