- By Jennifer Prill
- (General Dispatch) – The Democrats’ COVID-19 pandemic bill is slated for $1.9 billion, and is intended to use the social system put in place in the 1970s to make payments to parents who cannot work.
- The intention of the plan promoted by a large majority of Democrats is that low-income parents can access these benefits, which are much more valuable than those offered in the Biden plan.
- The bill will be debated this week in Congress, and Democrats are hopeful that it will pass.
- “President Biden’s welfare plan would greatly increase cash grants while eliminating all existing work obligations in the current child credit program,” says Robert Rector, the poverty expert at the D.C.-based Heritage Foundation.
- Critics express opposition to the bill and call it an opportunity for unemployed parents to avoid finding jobs.
- The plan is budgeted at $120 billion equivalent for just one year.
- However, the Democrats are working hard so that the proposal will achieve its purpose and strengthen the economy of parents who find themselves in a situation of unemployment, which prevents them from generating their own resources.
- In the next few days the Senate will make a decision in which it is expected to grant the benefit to this vulnerable sector of the U.S. population.
Adittional Information:
Breitbart: Congress on Track to Recreate 1970s Welfare Policies
Heritage: The Biden Child Allowance: Examining the Impact of Welfare on Work
