Tag: poverty
For all the suffering the pandemic caused, it also showcased what federal social programs can do to improve disadvantaged people’s lives. The assistance passed by Congress – all of it temporary – fell short of the ambitious New Deal spending of the 1930s but was more generous than the Great Recession bailout, much of whic…
Here is just some of what decades of research has revealed about poverty’s ill effects on children: lower birth weights and more obesity, diabetes, asthma, anxiety, smoking, depression, and intellectual disabilities, as well as lower college attendance and a greater likelihood of entering the criminal justice system. And then there is the negative fallout if…
