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He Iowa legislature is addressing the issue of child care access.

Require us to sunset some individual provisions as well as some expensing provisions on the corporate side. that create that cliff effect if you would. i'm confident once we get to that period of time we will avoid that tax increase and so the bean counters should not restrict us from doing good policy and immediate relief, $1600 for that family of four, that's hard math. that's based on doing the math by the typical family in our district will see that immediately and i'm confident they will see that through the entire 10 to 20 years we have in front of us on the budget windows. >> the issue ...

What i would love to be doing is making sure that we can bring the dialogue back to empirical evidence and research. our research with children's health watch across the country shows that when families were cut off of tanf assistance, that it made an increase in child hospitalizations. so we have to think about tanf as actually a child health program. most of the recipients of tanf are children. >> there is of course the argument about tanf being very successful social policy and about the previous system of welfare, which was grounded much more in a right to assistance than the current. as p...

Cash assistance and that causes an increase in child hunger. so what it shows you is it's complete completely diametrically opposed to what's supposed to be happening. >> the critique of the old system of course, was that it disincentivized work. if you -- and we've come up with a whole bunch of programs with the idea being that there is no cliff at which if you get a job or get an increase in income, your actual net gains go down, right? you do not want to create a system in which a job or a raise an income or a raise at your job because you're doing a really good job, duly means you're getti...

Concept, the cliff effect, has shown that when mothers report that they've had a minor increase in income, and they've lost their cash assistance or their s.n.a.p. benefits, again it's increased child hunger. we know that child hunger is is a major public health problem. it causes an increase in hospitalizations. it has a terrible effect on child development. and this creates this cycle of toxic stress. which affects a child's ability to learn well in school. to arrive to kindergarten prepared. we know that when children arrive to kindergarten under prepared, it's unlikely that they'll be able...