then also jane waldfogel who -- when you have ten co-authors getting them all on the phone, getting them to all agree on something is herk ewe lean task and jane was the best that anybody could be. we're talking about our plan to provide a universal child allowance to reduce poverty in income and instability among children in the u.s. i want to acknowledge this briefly. some of the funders. the centerry foundation supported a preliminary version of some of the analyses irp r-russell sage abet cetera. but all the flaws are ours. so child poverty in the u.s. sort of remains stubbornly high. right. so some much our work at columbia and elsewhere has shone some of the progress we made in fighting child poverty in the united states over. regardless how you measure it we still have especiallily high levels in the united states. and some of the tp tax efrpgs l exemption tendsing to to go to families higher up in the income distribution rather than lower down. and that's become a big problem. . the safety net has panned. but it obviously -- and that can supplement incomes quite significantly but