US Undoes Progress On Child Poverty As Spending Cuts Take Priority

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Amid the ravages of the first two years of the pandemic in the U.S., a small light became visible: The government showed that it could choose to move millions of children and their families out of poverty.

It is no longer choosing to do so, instead allowing most COVID-related aid packages to expire. And as researchers feared, poverty in America is again soaring—reaching pre-pandemic heights and in some cases going higher.

“It confirmed that a lot of this is really just a choice,” said Kyle Moore, an economist who studies inequality for the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. “We had programs in place that demonstrably cut poverty, particularly child poverty. We allowed those programs to expire. And poverty went back up—a lot.”

US undoes progress on child poverty as spending cuts take priority

The end of pandemic relief programs is returning millions of children to poverty. By� Mark Kreidler �for Capital and Main Amid the ...

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Would somebody please think of the poor billionaires? How do you expect them shoot themselves into space, buy Supreme Court Justices?

 

[1srelluc]

Yet the EPA found 5 billion to fund Biden's American Climate Corps.

I'm sure the other over-funded agencies can give up some of that "inflation reduction act" money that they are so flush with and help out.

 

[Oddball]

Funny how these shitlibs give not fuck #1 about "child poverty", as they shovel sores of billions off to Tenpercentskyy and his dead-end war.