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Poverty is an exam room familiar. From Bellevue Hospital in New York to the neighborhood health center in Boston where I used to work, poverty has filtered through many of my interactions with parents and their children.

“The lack of definition in our definition of poverty is part of the problem; it helps to answer the question of how the richest country in the history of the world could have so many people living in a state of deprivation.”

“The United States is considered the richest, most economically competitive country on the planet. So how is it possible that it also has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world?”

“Nearly 8 million Americans go to work every day yet still live below the poverty line. That is in part because the federal minimum wage is too low.”

“Child poverty in the US has reached record levels, with almost 17 million children now affected. A growing number are also going hungry on a daily basis.”

“In an age of looming public deficits and diminishing social services, Social Impact Bonds (SIB) hold powerful promise as a valuable addition to our toolkit of financing models for public good.”