Jason DeParle
@JasonDeParle
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Reporter for @nytimes, Author of A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century (Viking, August 2019)
Washington, DC
Joined June 2011
Today is the pub date of my book A GOOD PROVIDER IS ONE WHO LEAVES. Here is a timeline of the Comodas family. I have been writing about them for 30 years.
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“The homeless” are not an undifferentiated mass but individuals with inner lives and a search for meaning.
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Religion is often overlooked as a factor in the lives of the needy, but those who gather at a center in Virginia say it helps sustain them.
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Trump, Harris, and how a tax cut designed by social conservatives became a progressive anti-poverty plan. via @NYTimes.
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Kamala Harris’s campaign is pushing a version of the credit intended to fight child poverty, while Donald J. Trump sees the program primarily as a tax cut for people higher up the income scale.
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If the US could cut homelesness among veterans in half, perhaps it could do the same for others. via @NYTimes.
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Two federal agencies, backed by ample funding from Congress, have quietly shown that it is possible to make progress on a seemingly intractable problem.
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The homeless population is aging. One result: nursing homes for the unhoused.
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Programs are sprouting across the country to provide nursing home and rehabilitation services to homeless people who would otherwise shuttle between hospitals and the street.
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Narrated article: Pastor Acevedo is reluctant to complain about restrictions on immigrant aid. “I’m very, very, grateful to God and to this country ” he said. But when he talked of seeing hungry children, his voice caught. “I know what it’s like,” he said.
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Both legal immigrants and undocumented parents face hurdles in getting aid. The problem has grown more acute as children of immigrants account for a growing share of young people.
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Children of immigrants, the fastest-growing group of American youths, have poverty rates more than twice those of other kids. Fully 44 percent of poor children have an immigrant parent.
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Both legal immigrants and undocumented parents face hurdles in getting aid. The problem has grown more acute as children of immigrants account for a growing share of young people.
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Did the fall in teen births reduce child poverty—or did the fall in child poverty reduce teen births? Two compelling women have lived this question.
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Teen pregnancies have plummeted, as has child poverty. The result is a profound change in the forces that bring opportunity between generations.
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Child poverty fell to a record low. The program that did the most to reduce it vanished.
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A pandemic-era program that sent monthly checks of up to $300 per child to most families drove down poverty rates. Amid new research about its merits, some Democrats are vowing to bring it back.
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RT @PescaGist: Today on The Gist. @JasonDeParle of The New York Times documents how childhood poverty has fallen dramatically over the past….
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RT @deanbaquet: I haven't tweeted in 8 years but I'm so excited to work with the next generation of investigative reporters. Apply for the….
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This program is a one-year investigative reporting fellowship to develop the next generation of great reporters to do this essential type of accountability journalism at the local level.
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Thanks, Karen!.
@greta Highly recommend this excellent book by @jasondeparle on one Filipino family and its saga:
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RT @CLASP_DC: Why are fewer American children living in poverty over the last 20 years? Listen to The Daily with @JasonDeParle @nytimes .ht….
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I enjoyed this conversation with @krysboydthink about some rare good news on poverty trends.
Podcast: 🎧 @JasonDeParle, a @NYTimes reporter, joins @krysboydthink to talk about why childhood poverty figures have plummeted. They also discuss the role of government aid and what surprised policy watchers about the new numbers. Listen here!
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RT @DavidCallahanIP: With polls showing deep distrust of govt and pervasive cynicism that new programs will accomplish much, we need to do….
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My thanks to these eloquent families and my data partners, @DanaLThomson and @ReneeRyberg, at @ChildTrends. Read their report here.
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With child poverty cut by more than half, it’s hard to say, as Ronald Reagan did, that we fought a war on poverty "and poverty won.” More than 8 million children remain poor — a moral stain — but a defeatist narrative is obsolete.
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A visit to Huntington, an Appalachian town where tales of hardscrabble childhoods abound, shows how an expanded safety net offers children protection their parents often lacked and profoundly affects their economic and emotional lives.
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“This is an astounding decline in child poverty. Its magnitude is unequaled in the history of poverty measurement--and the single largest explanation is the growth of the safety net.”
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With little public notice and accelerating speed, child poverty fell by 59 percent from 1993 to 2019, according to a comprehensive new analysis that shows the critical role of increased government...
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Child poverty, a source of national shame, has fallen nearly 60 percent over the past generation. I spoke with @stavernise at The Daily about the reasons.
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There are some surprising reasons why millions fewer U.S. children are growing up poor today compared with 30 years ago.
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