Children aren’t old enough to vote, so they’re not a political constituency; they aren’t old enough to work, therefore they have no financial leverage. As a consequence they are treated as little more than collateral damage within a system that thinks business is the bottom line.
Gravel Institute @GravelInstitute
17 Feb 2022
In December 2021, child poverty was 12.1 percent. By January 2022, it had increased 4.9 points, to 17 percent. This is a catastrophe. No child should grow up in poverty. That is the bare minimum in a country as rich as America.

Feb 17, 2022 · 11:40 PM UTC

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Democrats put the interests of the teacher’s unions ahead of the schoolchildren because the latter don’t make campaign contributions. Shameful.
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They are akin to diamonds and gold, and should be treated as such.
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If every State adopts this Soil Proclamation we might not be able to pay them a wage but we are going to save their lives. #SaveSoil Soil needs to become an electoral issue to bring the awareness it needs and to resolve many other environmental matters. For our children:
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as a former child, thank you
Replying to @marwilliamson @ninaturner
No thank you marianne. What impact do individual choices and single parent households have on these statistics? What responsibility do individuals bear for their life choices? pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20….
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thought biden cut child poverty by half
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Speak out against harmful masking mandates for our children, if you are genuinely concerned about children.
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Two full-time workers barely make more in real wages than a single-earner made in 1975 Factory wages have dropped from an equivalent of $30hr to about $12hr 10.7 million children food insecure, in homes that don't have enough to eat Many have no homes
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anyone who has any idea what the lives of children have been like the last two years would never support democrats in 2022. this is coming from someone who supported you in 2020. the rampant, state-sponsored child abuse of the last two years is the end of the democratic party.
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