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Ep: 76 Stay-Home Stipends, $5,000 Dividends, Who’s writing the check?
The Sense and Senseless Podcast — Bryan and Jason break down a week of “we’ll pay you” politics and ask who actually writes the check.FOX floats a Trump-aligned idea to pay parents to stay home. The hosts agree families should be able to live on one income — then test the proposal against the existing Child Care and Development Fund: a $12.38 billion budget, about 1.3 million kids, roughly $9,000 per child. On those numbers there’s about $680 million left on paper — enough for tens of thousands more kids before operating costs. Bryan’s question: who quits work for $9K a kid, and does this fix…
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