Parental dividend

The parental dividend is a policy proposal first suggested by economist Shirley P. Burggraf[1][2] during a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College. It proposes replacing the current generalized labor market funding apparatus of the US Social Security system with one that preferentially rewards parental labor and investment.[3][4][5] While the current US Social Security system collects payroll taxes from working adults and redistributes them to retirees in amounts based on pre-retirement earnings,[6] the parental dividend is a retirement benefit calculated according to the income of one's own adult children.[7][8][9]

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