“Child poverty more than doubled in U.S. after expanded tax credits, stimulus checks ended”

“Child poverty more than doubled in the U.S. last year after financial assistance that supported families during the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic expired, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday.

The child poverty rate surged to 12.4% in 2022, up from 5.2% in the year prior, according to the bureau’s data. The Census Bureau attributed the increase to the expiration of expanded child tax credits and the end of stimulus checks that helped keep people afloat during the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic [LOCKDOWNS]…”

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/12/child-poverty-surged-after-stimulus-checks-tax-credits-ended.html

Say NO to any type of medical lockdowns. It’s horrible for the economy.

Welfare is a crutch designed to hold people down. It gives people incentives to be lazy and not to work. Why should they when they are paid to do nothing? Really community service should be required to recieve such things. Welfare should not be a tool used by the state to make people dependent upon it.