Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) listen to Raven Hinshaw, with her child, during a news conference to discuss the importance of the child tax credit in Los Angeles in August. Child poverty is bad for the United States. And we’re paying a terrible social and economic cost for allowing it to continue.

Children who grow up in poor families are more likely to struggle in school, suffer from stress and have poor health, compared with children in families living well above the poverty line. A growing body of research has found that […]

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