{"id":15458,"date":"2024-11-22T14:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15458"},"modified":"2024-11-22T14:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:28:05","slug":"america-keeps-choosing-poverty-but-it-doesnt-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15458","title":{"rendered":"America keeps choosing poverty \u2014 but it doesn\u2019t have to"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The short-lived pandemic-era child tax credit expansion cut child poverty by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/25\/us\/politics\/child-tax-credit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than a third<\/a>. And the bolstered social safety net from Covid relief bills nearly halved child poverty in a single year \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/25\/us\/politics\/child-tax-credit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the sharpest drop on record<\/a>. Once those programs expired, however, the child poverty rate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/09\/10\/child-poverty-rate-america-2023#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bounced right back<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Homeowners are told that their homes are the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/369525\/kamala-harris-housing-plan-corporate-landlords-homeownership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">key to building wealth<\/a>, so they reasonably want their property values to keep rising. For renters, on the other hand, any increase in housing costs is a loss. So while renters might want lawmakers to make room for more housing,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/04\/14\/opinion\/lexington-town-meeting-zoning-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">homeowners often resist<\/a>&nbsp;any change that could make their home prices stagnate.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/374488\/ending-poverty-america-policy-choice\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/374488\/ending-poverty-america-policy-choice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The short-lived pandemic-era child tax credit expansion cut child poverty by more than a third. And the bolstered social safety net from Covid relief bills nearly halved child poverty in a single year \u2014 the sharpest drop on record. Once those programs expired, however, the child poverty rate bounced right back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Homeowners are told that their homes are the key to building wealth, so they reasonably want their property values to keep rising. For renters, on the other hand, any increase in housing costs is a loss. So while renters might want lawmakers to make room for more housing, homeowners often resist any change that could make their home prices stagnate.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/374488\/ending-poverty-america-policy-choice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1236,217,165,270,411,707,619,1277],"class_list":["post-15458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-child-tax-credit","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-housing","tag-policy","tag-poverty","tag-united-states","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15459,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458\/revisions\/15459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}