We don't need to Google to find the mountain of evidence. The article starts out by saying the US has exceptionally high child poverty and spends relatively lit

We don't need to Google to find the mountain of evidence. The article starts out by saying the US has exceptionally high child poverty and spends relatively little trying to solve it: > America has long tolerated an anomalously high rate of poverty among children relative to other advanced countries—depending on how it is measured, somewhere between one in six or one in five children counted as poor. The reason why is not mysterious. The safety-net has always been thinnest for the country’s youngest: America spends a modest 0.6% of GDP on child and family benefits compared with the OECD average of 2.1%. It criticizes the roll-out of the program: > That does not mean that the roll-out has been flawless. To reduce administrative barriers, the credits are supposed to flow automatically from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to family bank accounts. However, a significant minority of American families have not filed tax returns in the past two years—meaning that eligible children are missing out. And reports that it's currently scheduled to expire despite great success: > All this progress is currently slated to be time-limited, though. Democrats in Congress only agreed to implement the enhanced payments for one year. No one read this article and thought "everything is fine". It's about how things are terrible and making it clear that we need to fund programs that help.