“Our own history and that of other wealthy countries show that child poverty is anything but an unalterable reality. The record also shows that changing it requires mobilizing funds of the sort now being wasted on ventures like America’s multitrillion-dollar forever wars.”

— Rajan Menon

Trump’s War on the Poor Includes Our Children (February 4, 2020)

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