Another excellent diagram showing the power of the 1996 US Federal welfare reform in both reducing child poverty and preventing it from increasing in the 2001 US recession
No one can deny the United States faces an epidemic of poverty.* Not when more than one in five American children live in poverty.
But some significant portion of the political and economic elite in the United States chooses to blame the poor for their plight and to deny that handing them cash will significantly improve their plight.
But they can’t simply ignore the results of studies like the one conducted by Jane Costello [ht: sm], an epidemiologist at Duke University Medical School, after the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains decided to distribute the profits from their casino among its members.
Professor Costello wondered whether the extra money would change psychiatric outcomes among poor Cherokee families.
When the casino opened, Professor Costello had already been following 1,420 rural children in the area, a quarter of whom were Cherokee, for four years. That gave her…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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