As we all know, poverty has a substantial impact on the children of Oklahoma. Shockingly, over nine million U.S. children live below the poverty line. In Oklahoma, poverty affects one in five children. As someone deeply passionate about working with children, I have seen firsthand the difference between those who live in high-income families and
This article is part of a series from the Center for American Progress exposing how the sweeping Project 2025 policy agenda would harm all Americans. This new authoritarian playbook, published by the Heritage Foundation, would destroy the 250-year-old system of checks and balances upon which U.S. democracy has relied and give far-right politicians, judges, and
We’ll have an ambitious, wide ranging child poverty strategy, we’ll give all children in primary school free breakfast, protect renters from arbitrary eviction, slash fuel poverty and ensure work is decent and secure for all. We will deliver the change our country needs, with an ambitious agenda to bring hope and opportunity to the next
