Poverty – Page 3

Trump and Harris Both Like a Child Tax Credit but With Different Aims

Kamala Harris’s campaign is pushing a version of the credit intended to fight child poverty, while Donald J. Trump sees the program primarily as a tax cut for people higher up the income scale.

By Jason DeParle

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The Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance

International health experts have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently.

By Andrew Jacobs

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Poverty Increased in 2023 as Prices Rose and Pandemic Aid Programs Expired

More faced hardship in the United States last year, the Census Bureau said, as inflation and the end of subsidies outweighed higher incomes.

By Lydia DePillis

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Trump and Harris Embody a Stark Partisan Divide on Fighting Poverty

The two presidential candidates can both point to records of pushing poverty rates down, but their approaches could hardly be more different.

By Jason DeParle

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