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

it reduces child poverty!

I guess downvotes love keeping kids poor

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

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.