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Our own history and that of other wealthy countries show that child poverty is anything but an unalterable reality. The record also shows that changing it requires mobilizing funds of the sort now being wasted on ventures like America’s multitrillion-dollar forever wars.

— Rajan Menon Trump’s War on the Poor Includes Our Children (2020)

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One in five American children live in poverty, even as pundits tout employment highs.

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Programs that reduce child poverty help even in years when poor or near-poor parents gain and, of course, are critical in bad times, since sooner or later booming job markets also bust.

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