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definitely with cutback hours and being
a single mom
anything helps at this point the motion
is adopted
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it's going to make it a monthly benefit
beginning in july we're going to see
families get you know 250
a month if their child is ages 6 to 17
300 per month per child if the child is
under the age of 6.
the u.s has long been an outlier in the
way that we structure and deliver our
child tax credit
many other countries have had some sort
of child benefit or child allowance
in place since you know post world war
ii
you can look at examples from germany
you can look at examples from france
you can look at south korea you know
countries all over the world
have this
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the united kingdom has also long you
know since the post-war period
had a child benefit that was a
fundamental piece of the way
the country sort of restructured
themselves after the war
one other country that has been really
useful to look at lately is canada
they significantly restructured the
benefit and
increased the value that it's now one of
the more generous ones that's available
in countries around the world
and the us has been paying close
attention to this because
canada was able to see significant
reductions in child poverty in a very
short period of time
if it was two young children in the us
we'll now see
what equates to essentially about five
thousand pounds per year
this is actually moving the us up in
terms of generosity of this benefit
compared to some other countries
canada still delivers a higher one for
two young children in canada
a family could receive a potentially
maximum of
roughly seven thousand pounds per year a
two-child family in the united kingdom
would receive about 1700 pounds per year
and different countries you know have
different reasons for doing it
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