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Child Poverty Is a Statistic, Not a Policy Solution

Why redistribution moves the numbers but not the conditions that make families poor

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Marco Navarro-Génie
Mar 28, 2026
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What comes to mind when you hear “child poverty”?

The term “child poverty” is younger than it looks. As a modern political category, it emerged in Britain in 1965, when a group of academics and socia…

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