US: Study: State public benefit programs for poverty reduce child abuse and death
Highland County Press – October 21, 2021
A new study, “State Spending on Public Benefit Programs and Child Maltreatment,” in the November 2021 Pediatrics (available online Oct. 18) found increased spending on state public benefit programs, such as housing, childcare and medical assistance, reduced foster care placements, child deaths, and child abuse and neglect. Researchers looked at state annual spending in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. during fiscal years 2010-2017 on local, state and federal benefit. For every additional $1,000 states spent on benefit programs per person living in poverty, child abuse and neglect reports went down 4.3 percent, foster care placements went down 2.1 percent and abuse-related child deaths went down 7.7 percent.
Also: State Spending on Public Benefit Programs and Child Maltreatment: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2021/10/15/peds.2021-050685.full.pdf

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