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It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. Maybe you saw the op-ed in the times

yesterday by sociologist and former Bernie Sanders advisor, Nick Hillgoyle, called,

Goyle, I'm sorry, called, America pulled children out of poverty. Now it's set to reverse

course with the vengeance. Here is Bernie Sanders on the topic with CNN's Jake Tapper last week.

You know, Jake, take a deep breath. We're talking about the head of General Motors,

making 29 million a year. We're talking about the rich getting richer, and yet we have the

highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. What a disgrace.

So, Nick Hillgoyle was a Sanders advisor on children and education, and his New York Times op-ed

is linked to a new book by him called, Live to See the Day, Coming of Age in American Poverty,

and just to get our priorities straight, if we can't solve child poverty in this richest country,

probably in the history of humanity, where are our priorities? Nick Hill, thanks for coming on.

Welcome to WNYC. Thanks so much for having me, Brian.

To start on the news as your op-ed does, how did we recently pull children out of poverty?

It is an absolute scandal as you recount in that introduction from the census recently put out

their annual poverty report for year 2022, and they found that within just one year,

the child poverty rate more than doubled, which means that more than 5 million children were

plunged back into poverty. It is the largest single, single largest increase in recorded American

history, and it is due to the expiration of the child tax credit, and among other pandemic-related

economic programs. Yeah, and I think our listeners, a lot of our listeners know, at least a little

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