UN Warns of Child Poverty Crisis Amid Record Military Spending
The piece (dated 2025 – a convenient glance into a predictable future) tells us global child poverty efforts are 'stalling' due to 'funding cuts.' Meanwhile, the Biden administration just pushed for a $14.3 billion aid package for Israel in October 2023, while simultaneously proposing devastating cuts to vital programs like Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC) here at home and slashing global humanitarian aid. For context, the entire UN-OCHA global humanitarian appeals often struggle to raise $5 billion annually for the world's most vulnerable. One might wonder if the 'global funding cuts' for children's programs are directly correlated with the global funding surges for warfare. Perhaps children's welfare isn't stalling; it's simply being
out-prioritized by the insatiable appetite for weapons, a 'stalling' that looks a lot like a redeployment of capital to specific geopolitical objectives deemed more critical by those in power. How many children could be fed and sheltered by a single F-35? It's a question Bloomberg, and many others, choose not to ask.