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Which policies are being utilized to address this?
Cutting Head Start?
Cutting Food Stamp benefits?
Cutting education and keeping college costs high?
Not raising the minimum wage?
Refusing to raise taxes on the wealthy?
Making abortion/birth control less accessible?
Continuing corporate welfare including the military industrial complex?
Not passing a Jobs Bill?
Really, which policies are focused on remedying this embarrassing and shameful statistic?
How about the policy of approving of indiscriminate sex and not holding BOTH parents financially responsible.
US Has Second-Highest Rate Of Childhood Poverty In Developed World...
Pretty much every developed nation except for us is about the size of Montana so i would actually hope countries like The Netherlands and France have a lower childhood poverty rate than us.
Stop offering tax breeding incentives to people who can't afford children.
Sweden has one of the lowest child poverty rates and "the state provides maintenance allowances for children (in the event the father does not pay support), and housing allowances. About two-thirds of single mothers in Sweden, for example, receive housing allowances."
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Some people that get classified as poor (in the US) live better than many of the middle class in Bolivia or Ethiopia. There are real Americans in true poverty and they are done an injustice by a system that lowers that bar to those who don't have TVs.
The term "relative" is used to distinguish the U.S. from Uganda, as an example. Western countries should be relatively similar.
You are wrong. From ops link:
Out of the 35 wealthiest countries analyzed by UNICEF, only one, Romania, had a child poverty rate above the 23 percent rate recorded in the U.S. The rate is based on the definition of relative poverty used by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which states a child is living in poverty if he or she is growing up in a household where disposable income, when adjusted for family size and compensation, is less than 50 percent of the median disposable income for the country in question.
Some people that get classified as poor (in the US) live better than many of the middle class in Bolivia or Ethiopia. There are real Americans in true poverty and they are done an injustice by a system that lowers that bar to those who don't have TVs.
Which policies are being utilized to address this?
Cutting Head Start?
Cutting Food Stamp benefits?
Cutting education and keeping college costs high?
Not raising the minimum wage?
Refusing to raise taxes on the wealthy?
Making abortion/birth control less accessible?
Continuing corporate welfare including the military industrial complex?
Not passing a Jobs Bill?
Really, which policies are focused on remedying this embarrassing and shameful statistic?
Unicef? part of the UN? They hate us anyway
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US Has Second-Highest Rate Of Childhood Poverty In Developed World
