Child Benefit increase is just a stopgap solutionRobin O'Brien Lynch
The government's proposals to means-test for Child Benefit has been met with fierce criticism across the political spectrum. Thomas Cawston of Reform argues that by doing the right thing in the wrong way the government is damaging the credibility of means-testing, and suggests that abolishing Chi...
The article reports on the campaign to increase child benefit rate by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in order for the British government to meet child poverty target. The campaign was supported by charities including Save the Children and Barnardo which held that the issue is vital to ...
In the Netherlands, like in other European countries, child-benefit amounts were once topped up with each parity after the first. With the reform, per-child amounts ceased to increase with each additional child starting from those born on 1 January 1995. The cutback was thus distributed over...
My sister is on welfare and food stamp, all her life receiving government assistant, and now she has decided out of nowhere that she is going to file her taxes mine you she has never worked a day in her life. She said that she can receive a child credit for $3000 per child, her ...
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Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently introduced a set of reforms that led to a substantial expansion of public child care for under three year old children. Using administrative county-level data, we exploit within...
Therefore, the government should devise ways of reducing the negative impacts of having a second child on a woman's career and provide child-rearing support to help increase the fertility rate. Our proposed approach can also be used to elicit the reasons for low fertility rates in other ...
comparable to those of a matched subsample from the general population, contradicting previous findings. Contrary to our hypotheses, wellbeing was not associated with fewer positive or more negative parenting behaviours. This is encouraging, as all children benefit from supportive and responsive ...
According to the WHO, an estimated 230,127 children under five years of age and more than 3.3 million community members will benefit from the project interventions. Over 700 health workers will be trained on screening, outreach, and treatment procedures in the course of the project. ...