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[Perspectives] Improving children's lives—the case for universality
“Do you think children today will have a better, worse, or roughly the same life to you?” was a question posed by the Gallup Organisation in 2022 in 64 countries. Globally, only 44% of the adult respondents thought that their children would have a better life than them; 28% expected a worse life—a 16 point spread. What have we wrought? A Whig view of history is that things are supposed to improve. Martin Luther King said that the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. Child poverty is at its historically lowest level, globally.
“Do you think children today will have a better, worse, or roughly the same life to you?” was a question posed by the Gallup Organisation in 2022 in 64 countries. Globally, only 44% of the adult respondents thought that their children would have a better life than them; 28% expected a worse life—a 16 point spread. What have we wrought? A Whig view of history is that things are supposed to improve. Martin Luther King said that the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. Child poverty is at its historically lowest level, globally.
