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News from March 2019

Child Poverty Rate Could Be Cut in Half in Next Decade Following Proposals in New Expert Report

Professor Hilary Hoynes was a part of the expert committee that drafted this comprehensive report on reducing child poverty. In light of the many costs generated by child poverty for the United States, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides evidence-based policy and program packages that could cut the child poverty rate by as much as 50 percent while at the same time increasing employment and earnings among adults living in low-income families. …