A conversation with Policy Outreach Director Seth DiStefano and Senior Policy Analyst Sean O’Leary on the connection between poverty and educational outcomes – and why education reform that fails to address underlying poverty doesn’t work. Link to video here.
It has been over a year since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), and despite efforts from its proponents to massage the data and deceive the public about its effects, it’s clear that TCJA has completely failed to deliver on its promises, and has left the nation worse off. Link to […]
More than 91,000 children live in poverty in West Virginia. At 25.5%, West Virginia has the 4th-highest child poverty rate in the country. The cost of child poverty is high. According to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, child poverty costs the U.S. between $800 billion and $1.1 trillion a year, […]
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