Removing work requirement from California child tax credit doesn't cause parental labor drop, study finds

2 years ago by TinMod to c/politics

Providing child tax benefits to low-income parents without earnings may not substantially reduce their employment, suggests a new NBER working paper, Child Tax Benefits and Labor Supply: Evidence from California by Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Neel A. Lal, Ithai Lurie, and Katherine Michelmore.
Sanctus 40 points 2 years ago

What's with the downvotes? Giving impoverished parents money for their children is not a bad thing.

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TinMod 27 points 2 years ago

it reduces child poverty!

I guess downvotes love keeping kids poor

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techwooded 11 points 2 years ago

It’s the same stuff with all these programs that have the trapezoid structure (income phase-ins). What the designers of the program are really looking to do is to not spend a lot of money, so the phase-ins move a large group of people (or children) from just below the line to just above the line so everyone can pat their back, they’re not actually interested in

Also actually having evidence that people just want to take care of children breaks the “moral hazard” narrative down which people don’t like

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GiddyGap 2 points 2 years ago

There are people who will poo poo anything that smells like the government doing anything for the less fortunate that may cost the more fortunate a few cents each.

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uberdroog 31 points 2 years ago

Most poor people I know bust their ass more than most of the well to do people that I know. They make bad money choices or are hit by life and just can't get out from under it.

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres 11 points 2 years ago

We should probably do more studies on this to confirm the findings of 10,001 previous studies, the lived experiences and testimonials of previously poor people, and the basic morality that guides our decisions.

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