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In their new $1.9 trillion stimulus law, Democrats temporarily converted the current child tax credit into a larger “child allowance” payable to parents regardless of whether they work or pay taxes. This has triggered debate about whether the law revives welfare as we knew it before those benefits were conditioned a generation ago on parents’ participation in work or training. But the fine print of the law reveals that these new benefits would certainly flow where welfare checks never went before — to potentially millions of parents who don’t live with their children,...

Millions to lose benefits day after Christmas even if Congress acts Jay Heflin © Provided by Washington Examiner U.S. lawmakers seeking to extend unemployment benefits in the forthcoming COVD-19 relief package have acted too late to dodge delaying payments to jobless workers, according to labor experts. “They should have passed something before Thanksgiving for this to be avoided,” Elizabeth Pancotti, a policy adviser to the labor advocacy think tank Employ America, told the Washington Examiner. Two unemployment benefit programs created by the March CARES Act aid worke...