A major effort to address child poverty in America has begun.

美国已经开始在解决儿童贫困问题上投入大量努力。

In its dying days the last Labour government passed a law committing its successors to reduce child poverty.

在上一届工党最后的执政日子里，通过了一项关于他们下届将会减少儿童贫困的法案。

First, the decade-long trend shows child poverty decreasing.

首先，长达十年的趋势表明儿童贫困正在减少。

Just look at the cost of child poverty in the US, for example.

例如， 看看美国儿童贫困的代价。

And less money plus more mouths to feed equals more child poverty.

更少的钱加上更多的人口需要养活等于更多的儿童贫困。

Since 1999, when Tony Blair announced his ambition to end child poverty, the profile of the poor has changed profoundly.

在1999年的时候，当托尼·布莱尔（Tony Blair）高调宣布，他将终结儿童贫困为己任，这一系列的措施让贫困儿童的现状发生了翻天覆地的变化。

And on child poverty, America's relative rate is higher than most other rich countries.

在儿童贫困方面，美国的相对比率高于大多数其他富裕国家。

So 2021 had extraordinarily low child poverty rates.

因此，2021 年儿童贫困率极低。

It is indeed a moral failing that America continues to have a high rate of child poverty.

美国的儿童贫困率仍然居高不下，这确实是一种道德上的失败。

The results of child poverty range from malnutrition to homelessness to children working in dangerous and illegal jobs.

儿童贫困的后果从营养不良到无家可归，再到从事危险和非法工作的儿童。

But that is strange, because compared to most high-income countries, child poverty is an epidemic in the United States.

但这很奇怪， 因为与大多数高收入国家相比，儿童贫困在美国是一种流行病。

So that jump in child poverty was a bounce back, and what that bounce back shows is intriguing.

因此，儿童贫困率的大幅上升是一种反弹，这种反弹所显示的内容很有趣。

Child poverty rates in the wider Windsor and Maidenhead region are 19%, and more than two-thirds of Ascot residents own their own homes.

温莎和梅登黑德地区的儿童贫困率为19%，超过三分之二的阿斯科特居民拥有自己的住房。

The Child Tax Credit cut the child poverty rate in half.

儿童税收抵免将儿童贫困率降低了一半。

Mr Goulden reckons that child poverty will increase significantly by 2020, mostly thanks to a change to how benefit rates are increased with inflation.

戈尔登认为，2020年儿童贫困将会大大的增加。这主要是因为即使福利保障水平会上涨，但是通货膨胀水平也会不断上升。

So this is a return to pre-pandemic levels, and it shows us what government action reduced child poverty back then.

所以这是回到了大流行前的水平，它向我们展示了当时政府采取的行动减少了儿童贫困。

It also warns that the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other donors are failing in their efforts to end child poverty in Africa.

报告还警告说，国际货币基金组织、世界银行以及其它捐助者在消除非洲儿童贫困方面未能成功。

So we knew how to fix child poverty, and we just decided, oops, we're not going to do it anymore.

所以我们知道如何解决儿童贫困问题，我们就决定，哎呀，我们不再这样做了。

These programs seemed to help get the country to these really low child poverty rates that we've now moved away from.

这些计划似乎有助于使该国的儿童贫困率达到非常低的水平，而我们现在已经摆脱了这种贫困率。

Figures released over the summer showed a sharp reduction in child poverty over the last year—mostly the result of falling median incomes rather than a genuine improvement.

如夏季公布的图表所示，与去年全年相比，今年同期的儿童贫困数量急剧下降，这主要是因为收入中位数的大幅下降并非现实状况的真正改善。