Fact of the Week: Expansion of Housing Vouchers Would Have Greatest Impact on Reducing Child Poverty Among Eight Possible Interventions
May 10, 2019
The proposals’ combined impact is a 57.1% reduction in the supplemental child poverty rate, less than the sum of the individual policy changes because the same child can benefit from more than one policy improvement.
Source: Children’s Defense Fund. (2019). Ending Child Poverty Now.Washington, DC: Author.