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After Congress Ended Extra Cash Aid for Families, Communities Tackle Child Poverty Alone

KFF Health News

The pediatrician, who gained national prominence for helping uncover the city’s water crisis in 2015, strode across the waiting room in her white lab coat, eyes laser-focused on the chubby baby in the lap of an unsuspecting parent. The child poverty rate fell to a historic low. The child poverty rate went back up.