Thursday, April 25, 2019

Congress asked top experts for a plan to cut child poverty in half. The most important report on child poverty in years is finally out.

In late 2015, Congress agreed as part of a bipartisan funding deal to produce a landmark, $750,000 report on how to cut child poverty in America.
The result of pressure from California Democratic Representatives Barbara Lee and Lucille Roybal-Allard, the provision called for the National Academy of Sciences to convene a group of experts to produce “a nonpartisan, evidence-based report that would provide its assessment of the most effective means for reducing child poverty by half in the next 10 years.”
That group has now, more than three years later, produced its exhaustive, 600-page report. Here is a summary, posted by VOX: