2) Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2023

3) Child Care

4) Food Stamps

5) Fighting Homelessness

6) Migrant Children

7) Federal Minimum Wage

2) NPR - Why America Has Been So Stingy In Fighting Child Poverty

3) Children's Defense Fund - The State of America's Children 2023

Government focused solely on costs?

Expanding Child Tax Credit?

“since the beginnings of the American welfare state, many Americans have disliked the idea of their tax dollars going to minorities or immigrants — and that has torn large holes in America's social safety net."

"The elderly population in the US is 77 percent white non-Hispanic in contrast to children who are slightly less than half white non-Hispanic," they write. "From the onset, the generosity and universality of anti-poverty programs have been a function of the racial composition of potential recipients.”

The table depicts how some races are "stuck in place" across generations. "For example, black children born to parents in the bottom household income quintile have a 2.5% chance of rising to the top quintile of household income, compared with 10.6% for whites."

the ratio between the black and white unemployment rates has consistently been about 2-to-1 since 1972. The pattern has persisted across multiple periods of economic growth and contraction, including in 2019 when, after 10 years of job growth, the black unemployment rate fell to a historic low of 6.1% but was still twice as high as the white unemployment rate of 3.0%.

How our school systems keep children in poverty, due to racial and socio-economic inequalities.

"“[T]he association between socioeconomic status and race in the United States has its origins in discrete historical events but persists because of contemporary structural factors that perpetuate those historical injustices. In other words, it is because of institutionalized racism that there is an association between socioeconomic status and race in this country”

2) Ban Ki-Moon (Global Commission on Adaptation)

3) Oprah Winfrey

4) Malala Yousafzai

5) Majora Carter