Can't afford to support your kids the usual way, Defiant, like by working?  Don't have 'em.  Anyone who is tipped into the poverty line by not getting that extra $1,000 (money they shouldn't count on anyway since the sum fluctuates each year) is not paying their way through life.   Get real.  This entitled, hand-out mentality is what will do in Alaska, not the difference between $1,000 and $2,000 of  free money.