{"id":3330,"date":"2020-08-29T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2020-08-29T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T13:20:47","slug":"what-it-would-take-to-end-child-poverty-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"What it would take to end child poverty in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In 2019, about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-State-Of-Americas-Children-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one in six children<\/a>&nbsp;in America \u2014 12 million kids nationwide \u2014 lived in poverty. That\u2019s a rate about&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisdatacenter.org\/wps\/liswps\/570.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two or three times higher<\/a>&nbsp;than in peer countries. And that was before the worst economic and public health crisis in modern history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scale of child poverty in America is a disgrace, not only because of the suffering it creates and the potential it drains from our society, but also because it\u2019s easily avoidable. Child poverty is not an inevitability; it\u2019s a policy choice. And we\u2019ve been making the wrong choice for far too long.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/podcasts\/2020\/8\/20\/21377024\/great-rebuild-kids-economic-mobilization-child-poverty-child-care-basic-income\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/podcasts\/2020\/8\/20\/21377024\/great-rebuild-kids-economic-mobilization-child-poverty-child-care-basic-income<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2019, about one in six children in America \u2014 12 million kids nationwide \u2014 lived in poverty. That\u2019s a rate about two or three times higher than in peer countries. And that was before the worst economic and public health crisis in modern history.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of child poverty in America is a disgrace, not only because of the suffering it creates and the potential it drains from our society, but also because it\u2019s easily avoidable. Child poverty is not an inevitability; it\u2019s a policy choice. And we\u2019ve been making the wrong choice for far too long.&#8221;<\/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":[166,217,167,411,676],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-child-poverty","tag-economics","tag-government","tag-policy","tag-poor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","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=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}