doing. that has moved 6 points since august and then this one just 37% give the president high marks for being competent and effective. i think that s a big issue in terms of confidence in this presidency as far as these numbers tell us, marc. you are 100% right, martha. it looks like the republicans might pull out a big upset in virginia tomorrow. all of this started with afghanistan. if you look at biden s approval. that fell august 15th. that day his approval was 50% approval. pretty solid. 55/40 before kabul fell. majority approval on the economy and fighting terrorism. afghanistan after the floor fell out from under him. not only has his approval gone
five days later. we immediately went to the secretary of the treasury about getting it up and running, first monthly checks went out july 15th, august 15th. october 15th the poverty rate among children has gone down 40% as a result of that. tell me anything that has had that kind of impact. i would like to make it permanent. that bill is not big enough to do that. but there are no work requirements, it s refundable. it was expanded to 250 or $300 a month depending on the age of your child. 90% of ohio children are eligible, and we ve gotten checks to 90 plus percent of them. we ve got to reach that last group of people, mostly the lowest income, hardest-to-reach people. but this has had such an impact in how dare you re a republican candidate in 2022, ali, and somebody says you re going to take my child tax credit away? i ve been getting this check month after month, it s made a difference in my life.
the messages of afghan girls we know it is very clear that this is the message of afghan women and girls that they do not want to live in a society with their rights are denied to them. if you ever doubt they want education going an afghan girl right now. she will tell you that it means her future to her, now. she will tell you that it means herfuture to her, herfuture depends on access to education, on access to school. the taliban seized power on august 15th, pledging a softer version of their repressive regime of the 1990s and to protect women s rights. the evidence contradicts that. under taliban rule, teenage girls older than 12 have been excluded from school in most cities. women, except for those in the public health sector, have not been allowed to return to work yet. last month the women s affairs ministry was replaced by the feared vice and virtue ministry under which the taliban s
yogita limaye is in kabulfor us and explained what some of are the every day challenges are facing people in afghanistan. it was difficult even before august the 15th, we have seen ourselves tens of thousands of people displaced because of the fighting, who had lost theirjobs, homes, members of theirfamily, staying in open places with just a bamboo stick dug into the ground, pieces of cloth strung between them as shelter, no access to basic food, medicines, sanitation. the un says 18 million people are in urgent need of life saving support, that was the situation prior to august the 15th. it has become even worse now because lots of the foreign funds flowing into afghanistan since then, that were through the government here, have been frozen since august 15th. a short while ago we heard the european commission president pledging 1 billion euros in aid
we have break news about the suicide attack in afghanistan that left 13 u.s. members dead. oren liebermann joins us now from the pentagon. once again, oren, this raises questions about the chaotic nature of the u.s. withdrawal and the repercussions thereof. reporter: absolutely, john. the latest revelations underscore how the final takes of the withdrawal were and how quickly the situation was deteriorating and how quickly afghanistan could be used as a base by terror organizations like al qaeda or isis-k to reconstitute their organizations. so on august 15th, as the taliban was essentially at the gates of kabul, they opened up two prisons, bagram air base and the prison near kabul. in opening up the prisons hours before they took control of the city of kabul, they released