Child Poverty in America

Child Poverty in America

How can the United States—still the richest nation on earth—tolerate one of the highest child poverty rates in the industrialized world? This is not inevitability but failure: we have the wealth to end it, yet lack the will. The same is true of widening inequality since the 1980s—it is a political choice, not an economic inevitability. By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir Child poverty is not a natural phenomenon, like an earthquake or a hurricane. It is a soci…

Bruce Blakeman discusses energy costs and child poverty

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the GOP gubernatorial nominee, discusses what he would do as governor to reduce energy costs and combat child poverty.