This holiday season remember that the cancelled child tax credit—which slashed childhood poverty by 30%—would've cost only $1.7T over the next decade, while the ever expanding Defense Budget will cost around $9T over the next decade.

Children are suffering and starving now because corporate bought politicians would rather buy bombs than bread.

Thank GOP & Manchin/Sinema for this cruelty & grotesquely misplaced priorities. A reminder that our standard must be justice above all—or we all suffer.

@QasimRashid I wonder if there is data on relationships (that may or may not exist) between child poverty and military enrollment. Reliance on the impoverished to fill the dwindling ranks seems like it would align itself well with these types of policy choices. May not be immediate, but extrapolate a little and it doesn’t seem too far off. I’m not a fan.
@JonVanG Yes, ample data on this. Worth reading up. The military disproportionately recruits from low income Americans. "Poor men go to die in rich men's wars."
@QasimRashid I am just curious if enrollment numbers could be directly mapped to poverty-inducing politics. The data is out there, I’m just not the one to do the analysis (my plate already runneth over). My guess is that you could track/project future enrollment trends based on economic decisions that affect children today. Might not be any statistically significant signal, but I would be curious to see. Same with the inverse—social spending up and enrollment down…