{"id":4868,"date":"2021-04-05T11:47:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:47:39","slug":"will-bidens-tax-plan-discourage-work-we-already-know-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"Will Biden\u2019s Tax Plan Discourage Work? We Already Know the Answer."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;the international experience shows that a child allowance is not anti-work. The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tcf.org\/content\/report\/what-a-child-allowance-like-canadas-would-do-for-child-poverty-in-america\/?agreed=1\" target=\"_blank\">vast majority<\/a>\u00a0of countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development already provide an unconditional child benefit, and most have a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/data.oecd.org\/emp\/labour-force-participation-rate.htm\" target=\"_blank\">higher labor force participation rate<\/a>\u00a0than the U.S. In fact, research suggests that parents receiving allowances actually work\u00a0<em>more<\/em>: \u201cAfter Canada enacted a national child allowance in 2006, employment rates for mothers actually increased across the board,\u201d according to one\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/the-false-promise-of-universal-child-care\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>. In 2016, Canada increased its annual child allowance to $4,800 per young child and $4,000 per older child \u2014 and the economy\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expandthechildtaxcredit.com\/the-american-family-act\" target=\"_blank\">added jobs<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/02\/10\/biden-tax-plan-work-child-tax-credit-labor-sperling-468183\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/02\/10\/biden-tax-plan-work-child-tax-credit-labor-sperling-468183<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the international experience shows that a child allowance is not anti-work. The vast majority of countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development already provide an unconditional child benefit, and most have a higher labor force participation rate than the U.S. In fact, research suggests that parents receiving allowances actually work more: \u201cAfter Canada enacted a national child allowance in 2006, employment rates for mothers actually increased across the board,\u201d according to one report. In 2016, Canada increased its annual child allowance to $4,800 per young child and $4,000 per older child \u2014 and the economy added jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[169,780,48,150],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-children","tag-joe-biden","tag-studies","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}