Child poverty is as bad now as it was 30 years ago–here’s how we can make progress again

Child poverty statistics now are as bad as they were in 1990. What would an economy that actually supports’ kids outcomes look like? A simple measure of societal progress is: “Will the next generation be better off than the current one.” Right now, we seem to be going backwards on that metric. A child born today has around the same chance of growing up in poverty as one born in 1990. “We haven’t seen the progress we’ve wanted to see on reducing child poverty, and part of that is to d...