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Since the late 1990s, both Democratic and Republican administrations saw the measure as a way to support middle-income and lower-income families.

An average middle-income family with two children spends about $310,605 to raise a child, according to recent data compiled by the Brookings Institution.

A middle-income family with two children could expect to spend more than $310,000, adjusted for higher future inflation, to raise one child born in 2015 through age 17, according to a 2022 analysis from the Brookings Institution.

One review of 20 voluntary actions from the food industry in low and middle-income countries concluded that “voluntary actions often aim to protect industry interests rather than improve public health.”

So far only one country in South East Asia, Singapore, has managed to escape the "middle-income trap", where economic growth slows before countries become rich.