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1	Two Simple Programs for Ending Child Poverty Chapter 11
2	Children and Elderly in Poverty, 1959-2000
3	California % in Poverty # in Poverty Children 19% 2,223,674 Seniors 8% 302,016
4	Social Security
5	Increasing Social Security Coverage of Seniors
6	Reduction of Poverty from Government Programs for Children and Elderly (1998)
7	The Impact of Social Security on Poverty among Seniors (2000)
8	Relative Importance of Social Security Income for the Aged, 2000
9	Social Security Programs
10	Income Support Programs for Young Children and Seniors (in Millions)
11	Income Support Programs for Young Children and Seniors (Amounts in Billions) Seniors (N = 41 million) Universal Social Security 352.7 Medicare Part A 128.5 Medicare Part B 89.0 Means-tested SSI 11.0 Children 0 - 6 (N = 25 million) Universal None Means-tested TANF 22.8 Head Start 3.5 Child Welfare .2 Adoption Subsidy .9 Medicaid/SCHIP ___
12	Should Welfare be Reinstated? Unlikely to happen Improve programs for children
13	Three Major Programs for Children Children’s Allowance Child Support Child Care
14	Children’s Allowance What is it? Why? What do other countries do? Does the U.S. have a children’s allowance?
15	Children’s Allowance Programs
16	Children’s Allowance in the U.S. Tax exemption Problem with this approach Value to poor children
17	Bundling The core problem of welfare
18	Brookings bottom 20%
19	Brookings 2^nd bottom 20%
20	Welfare Tax Rate
21	Guaranteed Child Exemption Like a tax credit Double the exemption, if no mortgage deduction
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25	Child Support Do we effectively collect child support in the United States, or in California? How is child support treated in other industrialized countries? Can we effectively collect child support?
26	Collecting Child Support 14 million parents had custody 7.2 million had child support awards Of those with awards, 29.1 billion due for the half with awards. 17.1 billion collected.
27	Collecting Child Support Estimated 60 billion in child support due. 17.1 billion collected. In the latest data from Office of Child Support Enforcement, 84 billion in arrears, of which about 4 billion a year is collected.
28	Child Support for the Poor More than ¾ of children in poverty that should receive child support fail to do so. The average child support for the child in poverty is $1.54 a day.
29	Collecting Child Support
30	Countries that Provide an Advance Maintenance Payment of Child Support
31	Child Care Situation for parents needing child care in California What do other countries do?
32	Percent of Children Age 3 to School Age Enrolled in Publicly Financed Child Care Facilities
33	Child Support Collections
34	Advance Maintenance Payment
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36	Average TANF Payment
37	Stakeholder
38	Bold Challenge
39	Stakeholder 2
40	Stakeholder 3
41	Child Future Savings Account
42	529
43	529 Rules
44	future