Like most existential threats, pandemics generate not only hardships but also hard choices. Clearly, the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted the fabric of family and community life. However, it has also triggered emergency policy responses that have cut through years of muddled inaction on issues critical to child health and well-being. Many people are surprised to learn that now, 2 years into the pandemic, child poverty has fallen to historic lows. This is not the result of some long-term secular trend. Rather, it is the result of new, aggressive policy initiatives, initiatives that without immediate action will be abandoned in the coming months.
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