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08/03/2015

Ending Child Poverty Now (2015)

Children’s Defense Fund

http://www.childrensdefense.org/library/PovertyReport/EndingChildPovertyNow.html

Search Terms: policy, children, poverty, poor, national, racial disparities, SNAP, subsidies, child tax credit

Summary: More than 14.7 million children in America were poor in 2013, with more than two-thirds in working families. A disproportionate number are Black and Latino. Poor children often lag behind their peers in many ways beyond income. This report shows how we can shrink overall child poverty by 60 percent, Black child poverty by 72 percent, rural child poverty by 68 percent, and improve the economic circumstances of 97 percent of poor children simply by investing more in programs that work like the EITC, SNAP, housing subsidies, subsidized jobs, the Child Tax Credit, child care subsidies and others.