Daily News | Child poverty has been plummeting across the U.S. for decades. We must keep the momentum going. | Editorial
, said 11% is a more accurate figure. Either number is a steep drop from the 28% of children reported as living in poverty in 1993.
Some conservatives are attributing the progress to passage of the 1996 bill signed by President Bill Clinton that was supposed to end “welfare as we know it” by imposingPhilly kids are still suffering COVID’s consequences, from mental health to childcare The Child Trends analysis, however, shows safety net programs such as SNAP had a bigger impact than “workfare.” The analysis attributed 9% of child poverty’s decline to “increased labor force participation,” but it said any role the employment of single mothers played peaked around 2000, while child poverty continued to fall.
The analysis said the federal earned income tax credit reduced child poverty by 22%; Social Security benefits, 14%; and SNAP, 11%. Those programs helped keep child poverty from increasing even more than the 4% it rose during the Great Recession from 2007 to 2009. But federal programs had minimal impact on “
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