ONE IN SIX children in America was living below the federal poverty line in December 2020. That does not stem from covid-19; a similarly large share were poor before the pandemic began, and disproportionate numbers are non-white. This is a perverse form of American exceptionalism. Child-poverty rates in America greatly exceed those in other countries, not because incomes are distributed too inequitably but because the social safety-net is especially inadequate for children .
After years of obscurity, the idea of creating an American child benefit, which has a few champions like Michael Bennet, a Democratic senator from Colorado, is gaining adherents. Joe Biden proposed a temporary child-benefit scheme as part of his stimulus proposal, though this may have been lost on the public amid the $1.9trn in total spending proposals.
Most progressives who advocate expansions of the welfare state do so with little consideration of how to pay for it . And some on the right invoke deficits so selectively that it is hard to take criticisms in good faith. But the proposals Mr Romney lays out to pay for the added $66bn in annual costs are sensible, and could appeal to Democrats if they are willing to listen.
It also provides some hope that Democrats and Republicans may be able to craft compromises in a way that has seemed impossible in the past decade of hyperpartisan, hyper-centralised management of Congress. One possible area of future cooperation might be criminal-justice reform—the subject of one of the few bipartisan bills passed during the last administration.
Socialist
It’s amazing/horrifying/tragic how grateful I feel when a Republican human does something human.
Hey, it's only paper money. Just print more.
He is a socialist!
You don't already have this?
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due to the publican pigs
And america cares about everyone? All Lives Matter? Or is it just a saying when a poc of color is finally being heard & y'all don't know what to do to give that attention back to your whiteness? America is on the main stage of joke. You only care about the rich not the poor.
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SenatorRomney should be a Democrat instead of a Republican. Traditional GOPs would not want to offer any permanent social safety-net of any kind. I am pleasantly surprised by his proposal! He would earn many votes if he ran for Democrat president. Sorry Madame VP.
So again DO SOMETHING
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