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#child poverty
  • Inequality
    Biden’s Child Tax Credit as Universal Basic Income
    March 19, 2021
    | Robert Kuttner

    The most transformative part of the American Rescue Plan will be very hard for Republicans to reverse.

  • Inequality
    Trickle Down Devastation: A Single Mom On Trump's Tax Plan
    April 27, 2017
    | Alison Stine
    Donald Trump's tax plan punishes single parents with low to moderate incomes.
  • Inequality
    I Told Paul Ryan What It’s Like to Live in Poverty
    June 7, 2016
    | Tianna Gaines-Turner
    People who are struggling to keep their families going continue to be shut out of the conversation in Washington.
  • Society
    When Social Responsibility Helps Corporate Bottom Lines
    May 12, 2016
    | Mark Karlin
    Are US children facing poverty benefiting from Red Nose Day as much as corporations like Walgreens are?
  • Inequality
    Who Are the 'Legitimate' Poor?
    March 8, 2016
    | Stephanie Land
    Someone once told me: “You are probably a part of a small percentage of moms and dads who are legitimate in their need.”
  • Inequality
    This Unnoticed Part of Obama’s Child Care Initiative Is a Big Deal
    February 5, 2015
    | Michelle Chen
    It's not enough for family policy programs to care for kids while their parents are at work. They have to support the families at home, too.
  • Inequality
    'Housing First' Policy for Addressing Homelessness Hamstrung By Funding Issues
    January 31, 2015
    | Rachel Cohen
    The new approach may spring from good intentions, but is undermined by a lack of affordable housing stock.
  • Over Half of P.S. Students Are From Low Income Families
    January 26, 2015
    | Elaine Weiss
    For the first time in at least 50 years, low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation’s public schools.
  • Joel Berg: We Must End Hunger in America, Starting With Child Hunger
    January 26, 2015
    | Joel Berg
    For our kids to be well read, they must first be well fed.
  • Inequality and the American Child
    December 30, 2014
    | Joseph E. Stiglitz
    Among developed countries, only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty. That's because America has embraced a policy agenda in recent decades that has caused its economy to become wildly unequal.


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