Moving beyond child poverty to promote family economic well-being webinar

Child Trends, Poverty Solutions, and other leaders unpack a decades-long decline in child poverty, and more recent shifts that followed COVID-19 aid, to probe how well common poverty indicators have captured changes in child and family well-being. After discussing the implications for policy and policy discourse, a panel of voices representing research, advocacy, direct service, philanthropy, and human services will share what it takes to build a social safety net focused on economic well-being rather than poverty, including sharing their own efforts. Recorded on September 20, 2023.
Child Trends’ presentation draws heavily from our 2021 report entitled Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child poverty (www.childtrend...) and relies on data from the Census Bureau (www.census.gov...) for the most recent child poverty numbers and the Columbia Center on Poverty and Social Policy (www.povertycen...) for historical child poverty information.