Child poverty is down - what have we done right, and what still needs to improve?
How much did the Child Tax Credit do to decrease child poverty, and how do we continue the progress we've made?
The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio
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Show Notes
A new report from the non-profit research center Child Trends shows that from 1993 to 2019, child poverty rates in the US decreased by nearly 60%. But there is still a lot of work to do. Jennifer Ng’andu is the Program Managing Director for the public health philanthropic organization the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She joins the pod to talk about what was behind the significant drop in poverty rates, what still needs to be done, and why some incredibly effective programs - like the Child Tax Credit - were allowed to disappear.
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