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Ben Wikler: “We did cut child poverty in half.”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Ben Wikler Discusses Transition from Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair and Reflects on Political Landscape

Published | Video Starts at 18:37

How can we ever make progress? Our political system's broken. Then Covid hit and we mobilized trillions of dollars. And, and then, you know, between Covid and then the Biden administration, We did cut child poverty in half. Right. Then we just decided to let it go back up. And when I say we, almost every Democrat was like, let's keep not having, you know, millions of children going to bed hungry. (18:37–18:40)

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Asserts that child poverty was reduced by half during the Biden administration.

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