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Fact of the Week: Expansion of Housing Vouchers Would Have Greatest Impact on Reducing Child Poverty Among Eight Possible Interventions

May 10, 2019
Expansion of Housing Vouchers Would Have Greatest Impact on Reducing Child Poverty Among Eight Possible Interventions​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.

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