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The most exciting part of @JoeBiden's "America Rescue Plan" may be one that gets little attention: It's the most serious effort to reduce child poverty in at least 50 years. It would cut America's disgraceful levels of child poverty by half. My column: https://nyti.ms/35MEjME
Too often we think that child poverty or race gaps are inevitable. They're not. Tony Blair cut British child poverty in half, using child allowances, basically the same strategy as Biden proposes. What we lack isn't resources or methods, but will.
Likewise, Michigan initially had a Black death rate from Covid 3X that of whites. Then Michigan tackled the inequity and the Black death rate from the virus is now lower than for whites. In other words, race gaps and child poverty are our choice; they're not a given.
FDR tackled a national crisis in ways that addressed larger problems, thus setting the stage for 35 years of inclusive post-war growth. Biden is similarly trying to address not just the front-burner crisis but also back-burner crises like child poverty that hold America back
So that's why I look at Biden's America Rescue Plan, at this first serious plan in half a century to confront child poverty and think maybe Biden is becoming...Rooseveltian. My column: https://nyti.ms/35MEjME Please read, and I welcome your thoughts.
