Sonny Clark
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #1
14.7 million children in this country are poor, and 6.5 million of them are extremely poor (living below half the poverty line).
Today, the Children’s Defense Fund is releasing a report entitled “Ending Child Poverty Now” that calls this country’s rate of child poverty “a moral disgrace.”
“America’s poor children did not ask to be born; did not choose their parents, country, state, neighborhood, race, color, or faith. In fact if they had been born in 33 other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries they would be less likely to be poor. Among these 35 countries, America ranks 34th in relative child poverty — ahead only of Romania, whose economy is 99 percent smaller than ours.”
********* Allowing child poverty to remain at these unconscionable levels costs “far more than eliminating it would,” calculating that an immediate 60 percent reduction in child poverty would cost $77.2 billion a year, or just 2 percent of our national budget.
******** “Every year we keep 14.7 million children in poverty costs our nation $500 billion — six times more than the $77 billion investment we propose to reduce child poverty by 60 percent.”
The report cites the M.I.T. Nobel laureate economist and 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Dr. Robert Solow, who wrote in his foreword to a 1994 C.D.F. report, “Wasting America’s Future”: “As an economist I believe that good things are worth paying for; and that even if curing children’s poverty were expensive, it would be hard to think of a better use in the world for money.”
Britain, which took some of the same steps as a case study of how such an approach can work because they “managed to reduce child poverty by more than half over 10 years, and reductions persisted during the Great Recession.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/o...p-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
We can do something about this shame and disgrace. Supposedly the richest nation on Earth, and we have extreme poverty issues, and those issues include our children. We don't bat an eye when it comes to fighting senseless deadly costly wars, building mosques on foreign soil, supplying weapons to drug lords and terrorists, and paying for the care and support of illegal immigrants, but we stand-by and watch our poorest struggle, and among them are our children, our future.
Where did we go wrong, and what are we willing to do in order to not only address this injustice, but correct it?
Today, the Children’s Defense Fund is releasing a report entitled “Ending Child Poverty Now” that calls this country’s rate of child poverty “a moral disgrace.”
“America’s poor children did not ask to be born; did not choose their parents, country, state, neighborhood, race, color, or faith. In fact if they had been born in 33 other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries they would be less likely to be poor. Among these 35 countries, America ranks 34th in relative child poverty — ahead only of Romania, whose economy is 99 percent smaller than ours.”
********* Allowing child poverty to remain at these unconscionable levels costs “far more than eliminating it would,” calculating that an immediate 60 percent reduction in child poverty would cost $77.2 billion a year, or just 2 percent of our national budget.
******** “Every year we keep 14.7 million children in poverty costs our nation $500 billion — six times more than the $77 billion investment we propose to reduce child poverty by 60 percent.”
The report cites the M.I.T. Nobel laureate economist and 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Dr. Robert Solow, who wrote in his foreword to a 1994 C.D.F. report, “Wasting America’s Future”: “As an economist I believe that good things are worth paying for; and that even if curing children’s poverty were expensive, it would be hard to think of a better use in the world for money.”
Britain, which took some of the same steps as a case study of how such an approach can work because they “managed to reduce child poverty by more than half over 10 years, and reductions persisted during the Great Recession.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/o...p-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
We can do something about this shame and disgrace. Supposedly the richest nation on Earth, and we have extreme poverty issues, and those issues include our children. We don't bat an eye when it comes to fighting senseless deadly costly wars, building mosques on foreign soil, supplying weapons to drug lords and terrorists, and paying for the care and support of illegal immigrants, but we stand-by and watch our poorest struggle, and among them are our children, our future.
Where did we go wrong, and what are we willing to do in order to not only address this injustice, but correct it?