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DTwyman
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Retired Government, film & broadcasting teacher. Politics & economics watcher, gardener & cat ❤️- Darth Kitty is one of my cats. If you don’t appreciate science, journalism, enjoy a good movie or think politics is a spectator sport, I’m not your thing.
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Harris has proposed giving $6,000 (via refundable tax credit) to families in the 1st year of a baby's life. Flint, Michigan has been doing this for the past year. The results are incredible: Fewer babies born with low birthweight No families evicted in baby’s 1st year Less hunger t.co/BiEcGw7Mj7

The woman behind Flint’s Rx Kids program, Dr Mona Hanna (known to locals as just "Dr. Mona") is the relentlessly upbeat, baby-obsessed public health advocate and Michigan State University professor whose research exposed the Flint water crisis. She's also a practicing pediatrician. Over the years, she's grown frustrated by how little she can improve the health of her tiniest patients, who often cope with inadequate nutrition, unstable housing and stressed parents.
"I know how to take care of kids, I know what kids need, but I don't know how to get the them cash to do it," she said. "For so long I just wanted to have something in my doctor's bag to prescribe away poverty."
She found a way to do it. Rx Kids is so named because it "prescribes" cash for pregnant moms and babies. Since January, city residents have been eligible for $1,500 at 20 weeks' gestation and then another $500 for each of the 12 months after birth (so $6,000 total for a baby's first year). There are no income tests, making the program cheaper to administer and perhaps less stigmatized.
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CHzoonie.bsky.social

Such a fantastic move if she does this.

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Keurydice-krg.bsky.social

It’s amazing how just giving people money keeps working.

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WTwarrenterra.bsky.social

Funny how it's the "pro-life" politicians that killed the enhanced child tax credit.

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JHjoelhanes.bsky.social

Ostensibly the richest nation in the world, but so far we've proved too mean-spirited even to give new mothers something like the Finnish "baby box". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materni...

Maternity package - Wikipedia
Maternity package - Wikipedia

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Sserienya.bsky.social

It’s like we get great results if we invest a little $ in our families.

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"Prescription cash" is such a good way of framing it. Don't fuck with people's medicine. They need it to live and that's that. I don't medically qualify for prescription cash but I have been known to abuse it recreationally.

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SKsandykazmir.bsky.social

Landlords waiting for that baby’s first birthday

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Ttamarasclan.bsky.social

I love having actual facts and data that shows how investing in people shows the biggest improvements instead of just bitching about things without ideas. Same thing with homelessness being done. Vote 💙 and all of our lives improve.

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deadersesq.bsky.social

It should be for all parents, with increased amounts for under school age tbh Kids are expensive at any age and care at home the most expensive

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Retired Government, film & broadcasting teacher. Politics & economics watcher, gardener & cat ❤️- Darth Kitty is one of my cats. If you don’t appreciate science, journalism, enjoy a good movie or think politics is a spectator sport, I’m not your thing.
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