On the recordJanuary 10, 1995
There is so often the assertion some of these programs designed to attack poverty and hunger actually make the problems worse. For the record, I am looking here at figures showing that in 1960, the percent of American children below the age of 18 living in poverty was 26.9 percent. By 1969, after the enactment of a number of the programs addressing child poverty, that percentage went down to 14 percent. It stayed down in the teens until 1983 when it went back up to 22.3 percent. The percentage stayed in the twenties and, at least as of the last year cited in this report, 1991, it was still at 21.8 percent. These figures are all contained in a report titled Two Americas: Alternative Futures for Child Poverty in the United States, published by the Center on Hunger, Poverty, and Nutrition Policy at Tufts University.
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