The most striking proposals were for the elimination of medical debt for millions of Americans; the “first-ever” ban on price gouging for groceries and food; a cap on prescription drug costs; a $25,000 subsidy for first-time home buyers; and a child tax credit that would provide $6,000 per child to families for the first year of a baby’s life.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      11·
      6 个月前

      Making things cheaper doesn’t help people in extreme poverty who have no money.

      Giving them money does!

            • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
              8·
              6 个月前

              I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but you squandered it.

              A ton of kids in poverty were not born into poverty, but their parents lost jobs or had health emergencies or parents who died. A lot of parents didn’t choose to become pregnant, because birth control isn’t perfect. Some kids are in extreme poverty because the parent without the job leaft due to domestic violence.

              And sometimes kids end up in poverty because a natural disaster made the family homeless and they lost their job becsuse the business was also halted due to the disaster.

              Blaming the parents casts a huge net and carches a lot of people who had shit come up in the 18 years between birth and adulthood.

            • AA5B@lemmy.world
              6·
              6 个月前

              It wasn’t the child’s choice to be born into poverty, however that came about. That money is to give the child a fighting chance to become a contributing member of society, regardless of its circumstances.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 个月前

      Investing in our children is not to fight today’s poverty, but tomorrow’s. We need to give all children a good start and the potential to develop into a healthy part of a strong society. The goal is for them to break the cycle of poverty rather than go around again

    • JamesFire@lemmy.world
      51·
      6 个月前

      True, but giving money for free isn’t a proper way of fighting with poverty.

      It literally is. Study after study proves just giving people money with no strings attached gives massive benefits for essentially no net cost.

      https://college.unc.edu/2021/03/universal-basic-income/

      The fact that you don’t know this proves you either ignore this, or don’t search anything to confirm you’re correct.