Our social safety net has a broken thread, and the ones who slip through the resulting hole are often the smallest among us: our children.  On every metric, children from disadvantaged homes face greater challenges to success than their more privileged peers. As a result, they do worse in school, get poorer paying jobs and suffer  disproportionately from violence, addiction and mental health issues.

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