Project 2025 specifically targets children
A new analysis finds that Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for a Republican presidency, would increase child poverty and homelessness in the United States, two trends that already outstrip other wealthy nations.
The analysis, “How Project 2025 would increase child poverty and homelessness in the U.S.”, published by First Focus on Children,finds that Project 2025’s extremist policy proposals would expand poverty-generating work requirements on key assistance programs such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF). Children make up more than 70% of all TANF recipients.
More than 1 million school-age children experience homelessness each year in the United States, and tens of millions more live in households that struggle to afford housing. Rather than offer solutions that increase access to affordable housing for families with children, Project 2025 would further limit access by imposing work requirements, time limits, and other eligibility restrictions. The plan specifically targets children of immigrants by barring mixed-status families from federally subsidized housing. When the former Trump Administration attempted this change, analysts estimated that children would make up more than half of the population that would lose housing, and that most of them would be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
Read “How Project 2025 would increase child poverty and homelessness in the U.S.” at this link.