Taking on Child Poverty
Good morning. Britain cut child poverty in half. Is the U.S. about to do so?
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Volunteers distributed food in Warren, Mich., last week.Credit.Elaine Cromie for The New York Times
Twenty-two years ago, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced an ambitious plan to fight child poverty in Britain. At the time, more than 25 percent of British children lived in poverty.
At the heart of the campaign were government payments to families with children. The rationale was similar to that of benefit programs for older adults, like Social Security: Society has an interest in supporting people who cannot work. And in the case of children, poverty can cause damage that lasts for decades.
Priscilla Read Chenoweth, Who Won Freedom for a Stranger, Dies at 90
She spent seven years and much of her retirement savings to prove that a teenager had been wrongly convicted of murder.
Priscilla Read Chenoweth in the 1980s. She later turned the study in her home into a makeshift law office, helping to exonerate a young man she was convinced had been wrongfully convicted of murder.Credit.via Chenoweth family
Published March 5, 2021Updated March 9, 2021
Priscilla Read Chenoweth, a civil rights activist and lawyer who spent seven years and tens of thousands of dollars of her own money to exonerate a stranger wrongly convicted of second-degree murder, died on Feb. 16 at her home in Silver Spring, Md. She was 90.
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