Poverty in the U.S. is a choice directly reflecting federal, state, and local policies. The expansion of safety net programs in response to the pandemic-driven recession reduced poverty rates nationally in 2021 to below pre-pandemic levels. However, because policymakers ended many of these programs—including expanded unemployment insurance, the expanded Child Tax Credit, and economic impact/stimulus payments—poverty rates rose from 7.8% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022. Child poverty, which had fallen to record lows in 2021, increased from 5.2% to 12.4% in 2022.
Who would have thought that the greatest weapon in the war on poverty would be… money… I wonder… chokes on dollar bill Nope, doesn’t work for the war on hunger. How will we ever win these endless wars???
the way you judge a society is how you treat the least of them. I will vote left every time, i get a chance. If something better comes along i will vote for that too. I am so sick of this bull shit.
I didn’t read the article because the way the states are arranged in that graphic makes me FURIOUS
