Republican Policy Has More Than Doubled The Child Poverty Rate

[Shell_Seas]

How Republican opposition led to higher child poverty rates in America.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/republican-policy-has-more-than-doubled


In 2021, thanks to the Child Tax Credit, the child poverty rate was at an all-time low of 5.2%. Unfortunately, it was only temporary because when Democrats attempted to expand it, they were blocked by Republicans and Joe Manchin. In 2022, the child poverty rate shot back to 12.4% nationwide. In Texas, the child poverty rate is 19%.

Texas has one of the highest child poverty rates in the nation, only better than other Southern Republican states, like Mississippi and Arkansas.

This is directly due to Republican’s intentional blocking of the extension of the Child Tax Credit at the end of 2021 (the 117th Congress), even though it was a campaign promise by Joe Biden.

The original American Rescue Plan went through the House and included the Child Tax Credit in early 2021. Every single Republican voted against it.

[Pantagruel]

1. "Texas has one of the highest child poverty rates in the nation,..."

And the GOP response is to stifle planned parenthood, assuring hordes of unwanted kids.

[quakerboy]

2. So they are succeeding in their goals.

Can we stop pretending this sort of thing is a consequence,not a purposefull feature of republican policy?