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For too long, America has led the Global North in the number of children living in poverty. Historically, almost one in seven kids in the United States grow up in poverty and the United States has consistently ranked near the bottom of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries in child poverty rates. Poverty not only affects individual children, but also has broader societal effects, including higher spending on health care, increased rates of crime, reduced rates of educational attainment and higher spending on remedial education. This is unacceptable. Fortunately, the recently enacted American Rescue Plan legislation takes the largest step since the Great Society of the 1960s to end child poverty in America.
Biden Effort to Combat Hunger Marks âa Profound Changeâ
As millions of Americans lack enough to eat, the administration is rapidly increasing aid â with an eye toward a permanent safety net expansion.
Sonya Radford and her daughter, Daja, shopping for groceries in Indianapolis. Ms. Radford enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which along with unemployment insurance left her better able to feed her three children than before the pandemic.Credit.Kaiti Sullivan for The New York Times
April 4, 2021, 6:00 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON â With more than one in 10 households reporting that they lack enough to eat, the Biden administration is accelerating a vast campaign of hunger relief that will temporarily increase assistance by tens of billions of dollars and set the stage for what officials envision as lasting expansions of aid.
Nashville Diaper Connection Meets a Huge Community Need The diaper bank currently serves 8 percent of low-income families with young children in Nashville Tweet
Photo: Daniel Meigs
If you’re a parent who received free diapers in the past year, there’s a very good chance they came from Nashville Diaper Connection. In 2020, the organization whose website features the slogan “No Child Wet Behind” provided a total of 2 million diapers to local families, up from 860,000 in 2019. Close to 66,000 of those were given out in the first four days following the March 3 tornado.
According to the National Diaper Bank Network, as many as one in three families reports experiencing diaper need. Diapers cost an average of $70 to $80 a month per child, nearly $1,000 a year. Nashville Diaper Connection, Nashville’s only diaper bank, provides a stock of diapers for 57 distribution partners across the city. And in 2020, the need widened.