Children should not be poor

Making work work can help ensure that our children are more secure and healthy. But we also need specific and concrete commitments to brighter futures for our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. We will never end the cycle of poverty if we continue to allow lack of opportunity to be the formative aspect of a child’s life. We will never strengthen families and communities if children – especially poor children – do not benefit from public investments that allow them to mature into productive citizens.

Our nation should develop and commit to a plan that reduces child poverty by half over 10 years. The United Kingdom has made such a commitment and is making significant progress in meeting it. Such a plan would be a first step toward eradicating child poverty altogether.

LEARN MORE:

• National Commitment to Ending Child Poverty:
  • The United Kingdom Commitment
  • Progress in the U.K.
  • Bipartisanship
  • Why Don’t We Have a Goal, Too?
  • Efforts in Canada


• National Center for Children in Poverty
• Children’s Defense Fund