James Madison warned us the morbidly rich are the greatest threat to our republic.

Republicans don't even try to hide it anymore.

Amazingly the House managed to pass a piece of legislation Wednesday that both helps hungry kids and gives

a boost to businesses that want to invest in future products.

It was a compromise and neither side is ecstatic, but both Democrats and Republicans got something

for their constituents.

Democrats got to lift 400,000 people and their families out of poverty.

And the legislation will immediately carry an additional 3 million kids from deep poverty to mere poverty with an expanded child tax credit.

Over the next year reports the Center on Budget and policy priorities. The legislation will help

over 16 million children growing up in low-income households. That means those

kids are more likely to grow up as healthy, well-adjusted, and productive members of

society.

Science tells us that reducing child poverty this way means there will be less child abuse,

fewer divorces in a healthier economy.

It could, in fact, save America as much as a trillion dollars a year around 5.4% of GDP, which a

groundbreaking 2018 study found was the cost to America of Childhood Poverty.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis

found that adults who experienced poverty during their childhood

earned a total of $294 billion less in 2015

than their otherwise identical peers who did not experience poverty as kids.

Add that to the poverty related costs associated with crime, child maltreatment, and homelessness.

And the researchers concluded that child poverty is

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