how to end extreme child poverty - this article just made me think about Matt Bruenig's family fun pack (
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/family-fun-pack/)The premise, much like the child tax credit, is just "give poor families money if you want to end extreme poverty and actually help kids". Bruenig suggests a tax based solution to the inequalities created by capitalism and lack of social safety nets for families. He suggests we implement broad-based taxes and distribute them across three axes: family size, age and income level - redirecting money from small families to big families, old families to young families, and rich families to poor families.
It's crazy the lengths people will go to to avoid the "just give people money" solution (like giving people food through food stamps but also the government regulates what people can actually buy with food stamps and still maintains control over America's poor...)