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Dems propose ‘baby bonds’ to close the racial wealth gap: ‘Black lives and Black wealth matter’


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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-propose-baby-bonds-close-racial-wealth-gap-black-lives-black-wealth-matter

 

Democrats propose higher estate taxes to pay for their plan to close the racial wealth gap

Rep. Ayanna Pressley proposed legislation creating new federal payments to children that she said is aimed at narrowing America's racial wealth gap.

 

House and Senate Democrats this week proposed a bill that would instruct the federal government to give anyone born in the U.S. after 2005 a $1,000 "seed savings account," and then make contributions to that account until they are 18 – a plan sponsors say is aimed at closing America’s "racial wealth gap."

 

The "baby bonds" bill, from Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., would give children up to $2,000 a year in the lowest income families, an amount that would drop as families earn more. Once a family makes more than 500% of the federal poverty level, their kids would only receive the initial $1,000 payment.

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