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Re:Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Bigg... by gnicholas on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:16PM (#17325619)
> A per-child negative income tax sufficient to cover the risk/impact of employer discrimination.

Wouldn't this just lead to employers discriminating, on the grounds that "hey, you already got your tax benefit to make up for it"?

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Re:Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Bigg... by AFNobody on Saturday June 16, 2018 @07:45AM (#17327032)
Not if the penalties harsh enough that a decent lawyer will take an average case on spec.

You need to remember the effectiveness of a law is penalty * odds of getting caught. You just need to make discrimination unattractive financially and provide some incentive to the parents to cover the risk.

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