America is substantially reducing poverty among children
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Re: America is substantially reducing poverty among children
#2*Temporarily, and partially thanks to the previous administration
The infrastructure bill is about to fail due to a few corrupt corporate Democrats.
Re: America is substantially reducing poverty among children
#3*Temporarily, and partially thanks to the previous administration The infrastructure bill is about to fail due to a few corrupt corporate Democrats.
If this statement has elements of truth (I mean maybe it does?), may I please see the evidence?
Re: America is substantially reducing poverty among children
#4*Temporarily, and partially thanks to the previous administration The infrastructure bill is about to fail due to a few corrupt corporate Democrats.
I am pretty certain the COVID relief funding has been primarily placed on the chopping block by republicans recently with efforts to increase it coming out of the democratic side - there are of course exceptions to this with some of the more moderate democrats siding with a scaling back of benefits (nothing is monolithic or purely black and white).
Re: America is substantially reducing poverty among children
#5How can children be poor? Aren't their parents poor? Or are children supposed to provide for them selves in US?
Re: America is substantially reducing poverty among children
#6*Temporarily, and partially thanks to the previous administration The infrastructure bill is about to fail due to a few corrupt corporate Democrats.
Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. It's the opposite of what we're trying for on this site.
Re: America is substantially reducing poverty among children
#7Mostly because the pandemic caused panic stimulus spending, not because of permanent, structural changes to fiscal policy.
Re: America is substantially reducing poverty among children
#8How can children be poor? Aren't their parents poor? Or are children supposed to provide for them selves in US?
We attach a dollar figure to make it easier to measure, but a different way to look at it is when your basic needs are not met (food, shelter) you live in poverty; you are impoverished.
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#9I think this (COVID relief) is the closest America is going to get to a legitimate domestic experiment on UBI we're going to get for a while so it's rather heartening to see the drop in family poverty.
Re: America is substantially reducing poverty among children
#10*Temporarily, and partially thanks to the previous administration The infrastructure bill is about to fail due to a few corrupt corporate Democrats.
Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. It's the opposite of what we're trying for on this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not partisan, the child tax credit that gives parents $300/month/child that was included in the "American Rescue Plan" expires at the end of the year. [1]
The new infrastructure bill was supposed to include free childcare and other benefits but it's looking like it will get killed by Manchin and Sinema.
[1] "The American Rescue Plan allows families to opt in to receive the monthly payments from July 15 until Dec. 15, 2021." - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/taxes/will-i-receive-the-chil...