Read Brad on the depressing factoid that while the UK has been reducing child poverty by 17 percent, America has been increasing it by 12. Sorrowful stuff. The info comes from Jared Bernstein and Mark Greenberg's op-ed in today's Washington Post, laying out Britain's efforts and successes after Blair's government announced that they end child poverty by 2020 and contrasting it with America's total inattention to the problem. Bernstein, the resident poverty expert at EPI, is quite close to John Edwards, so at least someone with a role in the national debate is listening to this stuff.
