WASHINGTON - More than one in 10 children in the United States live in poverty, an uncomfortably high figure for the world’s richest nation.
Five million more children slid into poverty in 2022, just one year after the country celebrated a dramatic fall in the figure. Partisan politics may have been responsible, say analysts.
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