US is a 'world leader' in child poverty

[Luddly Neddite]

The Numbers Are Staggering: U.S. Is 'World Leader' in Child Poverty



By Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

April 13, 2015

America's wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion. In approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent.

Financier and CEO Peter Schiff said, "People don’t go hungry in a capitalist economy." The 16 million kids on food stamps know what it's like to go hungry. Perhaps, some in Congress would say, those children should be working. "There is no such thing as a free lunch," insisted Georgia Representative Jack Kingston, even for schoolkids, who should be required to "sweep the floor of the cafeteria" (as theyactually do at a charter school in Texas).

$5 a Day for Food, But Congress Thought it was Too Much.

Nearly half of all food stamp recipients are children, and they averaged about $5 a day for their meals before the 2014 farm bill cut $8.6 billion (over the next ten years) from the food stamp program.

For Every 2 Homeless Children in 2006, There Are Now 3

On a typical frigid night in January, 138,000 children, according to the U.S. Department of Housing, were without a place to call home.

That's about the same number of households that have each increased their wealth by $10 million per yearsince the recession.

The US: Near the Bottom in Education, and Sinking

The U.S. ranks near the bottom of the developed worldin the percentage of 4-year-olds in early childhood education. Early education should be a primary goal for the future, as numerous studies have shown that pre-school helps all children to achieve more and earn more through adulthood, with the most disadvantaged benefiting the most. But we're going in the opposite direction. Head Start was recently hit with the worst cutbacks in its history.

Children's Rights? Not in the U.S.

It's hard to comprehend the thinking of people who cut funding for homeless and hungry children. It may be delusion about trickle-down, it may be indifference to poverty, it may be resentment toward people unable to "make it on their own."

The indifference and resentment and disdain for society reach around the globe. Only two nations still refuse to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: South Sudan and the United States.


Kingston isn't the only Republican to say kids should work in their schools. Remember when Newt Gingrich said they should clean the toilets at school?

I realize they're not fetuses but we cannot let the Republicans get away with cutting food stamps.

 

[Stephanie]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Closer and closer we get to "Elysium." Only in the real world there's no orbiting space station to hide on, and no battle droids to protect your rich ass.

A reckoning is coming. Treat people like animals today, the animals might bite you tomorrow.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

IOW, let the children starve in the streets.

 

[pismoe]

B.S. , that is all !!

 

[Anathema]

Let me call all those kids a Whaaaambulance!!!! They are paying for the sins of their parents, who are the ones at fault; not the Government or the Country.

 

[Freewill]

If this be true why the flood at the border?

Here I thought the US lead in childhood obesity.

 

[Papageorgio]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

IOW, let the children starve in the streets.

How many children starved in the streets this last year?

 

[Statistikhengst]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

You are free to write anything you want, but data is data is data and the millions of kids who are dirt poor is not going to change because you are too busy writing "OMG frikken Obama bla bla bla" all day long, Staph.

 

[Rocko]

Thanks Obozo

 

[DarkFury]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

Their president let's in 3 or 4 MILLION uneducated ILLEGAL children in the last year and they don't see WHO caused the problem?

 

[Statistikhengst]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

Their president let's in 3 or 4 MILLION uneducated ILLEGAL children in the last year and they don't see WHO caused the problem?

"Those durned brown skinned folks, I tell ya!"

 

[Anathema]

How many children starved in the streets this last year?

NOT ENOUGH.

 

[DarkFury]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

You are free to write anything you want, but data is data is data and the millions of kids who are dirt poor is not going to change because you are too busy writing "OMG frikken Obama bla bla bla" all day long, Staph.

Data.......garbage in and garbage out. Stats can be skewed to fit anyone's agenda. Even a muslim like you.

 

[Statistikhengst]

[QUOTE="DarkFury, post: 11224849, member: 53565"
Data.......garbage in and garbage out. Stats can be skewed to fit anyone's agenda. Even a muslim like you.[/QUOTE]

 

[Meathead]

We lead the world in fat poor kids, no doubt.

 

[Statistikhengst]

A key quote from the OP:

"[Children's] material well-being is highest in the Netherlands and in the four Nordic countries and lowest in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United States."

Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty.

Anyone who knows the history of the Iron Curtain knows how terribly the USSR literally raped these three little countries of their natural resources, leaving them as poor as can be. To see the name "United States" next to those three baltic states is indeed a shock.

 

[Statistikhengst]

And here's the other shocker:

Children's Rights? Not in the U.S.

It's hard to comprehend the thinking of people who cut funding for homeless and hungry children. It may be delusion about trickle-down, it may be indifference to poverty, it may be resentment toward people unable to "make it on their own."

The indifference and resentment and disdain for society reach around the globe. Only two nations still refuse to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: South Sudan and the United States. When President Obama said, "I believe America is exceptional," he was close to the truth, in a way he and his wealthy friends would never admit.

Even more shocking is to see the words "United States" together with "Sudan" in any ranking. Wow.

 

[Anathema]

And here's the other shocker:

Children's Rights? Not in the U.S

Children are the property and responsibility of their parents. Until they are capable of taking responsibility for themselves they do not deserve Rights. Hell, most adults aren't responsible enough to have earned their Rights.

 

[Statistikhengst]

And here's the other shocker:

Children's Rights? Not in the U.S

Children are the property and responsibility of their parents. Until they are capable of taking responsibility for themselves they do not deserve Rights. Hell, most adults aren't responsible enough to have earned their Rights.

You are completely missing the point.

I am totally shocked to notice this.