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Kamala Harris’s $6,000 baby bonus is more ambitious than Jacinda Ardern’s signature anti-poverty policy

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Kamala Harris dropped a major policy offer: to give parents $ 6,000 in their child’s first year .

Julian Zelizer : New Zealand's " Jacinda -mania" has energized a broad coalition, with an unusual policy emphasis: on child poverty.

New Zealand experience suggests it could increase children's opportunities, and be politically viable in the U.S ..

Best Start had no effect on mothers’ income from employment, and unconditional cash elsewhere has typically only reduced new mothers ' long hours and weekend shifts.

Best Start was supported by the progressive Greens and populist anti-immigration New Zealand First —parties that Ardern’s Labour Party initially relied on to govern.

It is also one policy from her era that has survived New Zealand's current conservative government's sweeping cuts.

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