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In the United States, children are more likely to experience poverty than people over 18. In 2020, about 1 in 6 kids, 16% of all children, were living in families with incomes below the official poverty line – an income threshold the government set that year at about US$26,500 for a family of four. Only More
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Callie Freitag – Heather D. Hill.