Child Poverty and How to End It
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Through the story of three North Philadelphia children and drawing on his research, Nikhil Goyal, sociologist and policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Committee on the Budget and the author of Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty (Metropolitan Books, 2023), shows how poverty limits the lives of U.S. children and offers policy solutions.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ryan Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. |
| 0:12.7 | Maybe you saw the op-ed in the Times yesterday by sociologist and former Bernie Sanders adviser |
| 0:19.0 | Nick Hillgoyle, Goyle, I'm sorry, called America pulled children out of poverty. |
| 0:28.2 | Now it's set to reverse course with a vengeance. |
| 0:31.8 | Here is Bernie Sanders on the topic with CNN's Jake Tapper last week. |
| 0:37.1 | You know, Jake, take a deep breath. |
| 0:38.6 | We're talking about the head of General Motors making 29 million a year. |
| 0:42.2 | We're talking about the rich getting richer and yet we have the highest rate of childhood |
| 0:46.4 | poverty of almost any major country on earth. |
| 0:49.9 | What a disgrace. |
| 0:51.9 | So Nick Hillgoyle was a Sanders adviser on children and education and his New York Times op-ed |
| 0:58.7 | is linked to a new book by him called Live to See the Day, Coming of Age in American |
| 1:05.4 | Poverty. |
| 1:06.4 | And just to get our priorities straight, if we can't solve child poverty in this richest |
| 1:11.9 | country, probably in the history of humanity, where are our priorities? |
| 1:17.4 | Nick Hill, thanks for coming on. |
| 1:18.4 | Welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:19.4 | Thanks so much for having me, Brian. |
| 1:21.5 | To start on the news as your op-ed does, how did we recently pull children out of poverty? |
| 1:26.8 | It is an absolute scandal as you recount in that introduction from the census recently |
| 1:33.6 | put out their annual poverty report for year 2022. |
| 1:38.0 | And they found that within just one year the child poverty rate more than doubled, which |
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