Hosted by U.S. Child Poverty Action Group, First Focus, and the American Academy of Pediatrics in collaboration with Senator Bob Casey
In response to a mandate from Congress, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently published a landmark study, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty, which confirms that child poverty is solvable problem when there is the political will to address it. Written by a committee of the nation’s leading experts, the study puts forward an evidenced-based policy agenda that, if prioritized and implemented by our nation’s lawmakers, would cut our child poverty rate in half within a decade.
We have a roadmap—now is the time to act. Concurrent with the release of A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty, the U.S. Child Poverty Action Group launched End Child Poverty U.S., a national campaign to set a target to cut our child poverty rate in half within a decade and eliminate child poverty within 20 years.
To continue the discussion, please join the U.S. Child Poverty Action Group, First Focus, and the American Academy of Pediatrics to learn about the impact of child poverty on healthy child development and how Members of Congress and other stakeholders can utilize these findings in their work to reduce child poverty in the United States.
Remarks
Senator Bob Casey (D-PA)
Panelists
Bruce Lesley, President, First Focus
Robert Moffitt, Ph.D, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, John Hopkins University and NASEM Study Committee Member, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
Dr. Diana Montoya-Williams, Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Instructor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine
Supplementary Materials
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine study, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty, full version and highlights
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine webinar, “Findings from the Report”
U.S. Child Poverty Action Group’s Top Takeaways from NASEM study
State Resources - What are the roadmaps to cutting child poverty in your state?
CHOP PolicyLab brief, A Portrait of Disadvantage: Understanding Poverty's Influence on Child Development