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Child Poverty: Trends and Outlook

Spotlight on Poverty

November 3, 2022

Spotlight hosted an engaging and substantive discussion on recent trends in childhood poverty. The event, held with the support of the Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, was moderated by Aparna Mathur, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center. The panelists were Dana Thomson of Child Trends, Samuel Hammond of the Niskanen Center; Stephen Nuñez of the Jain Family Institute, and Scott Winship of the American Enterprise Institute.

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