"child #poverty more than doubled between 2021 & 2022...

And the thing is, this didn’t have to happen... It was instead a #political choice. The story is in fact quite simple: #Republicans & a handful of conservative #Democrats blocked the extension of federal programs that had drastically reduced #ChildPoverty over the previous two years, and as a result just about all of the gains were lost.

The cruelty of this choice should be obvious."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/opinion/child-poverty-america.html

#Politics #USPol #USA #News

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