At the peak of economic boom times in 2000, the U.S. child-poverty rate reached a historic low of 16.2 percent. Even then, UNICEF ranked the United States as having the second highest child-poverty rate out of 26 rich countries. The United States had a child-poverty rate twice Germany’s, five times Sweden’s, and nearly ten times […]
Algernon Austin
Algernon Austin directs the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute.
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Budget Cuts and Our Children’s Future
Deficit hawks invoke the next generation, but an austerity program would balance the budget on the backs of America’s most vulnerable parents and children.