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Family welfare caps--aka "welfare queen" laws--are meant to discourage women receiving public assistance from gaming the system by having more kids to get more aid. The restrictions, however, have no effect on mothers' birthrates, according to Guttmacher Institute research. In addition, as the Urban Institute argues, they can thrust families deeper into poverty and impair children's development. California is the seventh state since 2002 to repeal a...

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