Poverty made an alarming jump. Congress could have stopped it. ...Middle East

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New Census figures reveal a troubling trend. After tumbling in 2021, poverty spiked sharply in 2022. Despite steady job growth, the Supplemental Poverty Measure jumped 4.6 points, from 7.8 to 12.4 percent. That’s a historic, nearly 60 percent increase just one year after the measure reached a record low. And the rate for children more than doubled, from 5.2 percent in 2021 to 12.4 percent in 2022. The stark contrast paints a vivid picture of how poverty in this country is a political choice, not a personal one. And it’s a willful unlearning of the lessons we took from the pandemic, a time of nearly unprecedented economic and social crisis. During the pandemic, families lost jobs

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