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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The reason it’s framed as “child poverty” specifically is because growing up in poverty has very specific and lifelong consequences ranging from lowered IQs to behavior and mental illness issues. It’s really highly correlated, to the point of being deterministic.

I agree that poverty needs to be fixed for everyone, but for children in particular it can have long lasting effects for an entire generation and more because of what it does to brain development.