Poverty and Children in the United States

Running Head : POVERTY AND CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES

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Introduction

Although the world has made strides in technical development , social development issues remain a challenge not only to the developing world but also to the developed world . Poverty is one of the social issues that have been tackled by successive government with littler mitigation of the situation . Even in situation where the rate of poverty seems declining , there is always a quick shift of the goalpost and the gains made

are quickly eroded with successive change of government or due to the changing environment condition

Even in developed countries like United States , poverty is a major challenge . The rate of poverty of poverty remains at double digit even with all the efforts to tackle the problem . Poverty has been confined to the low income segment of the society . Children are the most affected with a high percentage of poverty confined in children population . Due to their vulnerable nature , children have no option but to live with the current state of their life . Consequent researches have proved that children under the age of 18 are more likely to be impoverished

At all time in our history the gap between the rich and the poor has been growing wide . Not that there are not effort to reduce this gap , but somehow the nature of our economies , free market and the role of the state remain unclear . To take a leaf from a popular book which was published in 1888 by Edward Bellamy , we have not reached the u situation that he had predicted in the book by 2000 . He saw a society where class division were to be done away with , but our the gap between the rich and the poor is wide where workers earn the same salary , but there is a big difference in our salary scale and a society where poverty would no longer exist , but our poverty levels are soaring all time high . In his critical outlook at the 19teh century , Dr Lee failed to understand how wages were set at a state in which men and women would not be able to sustain the life of their children . He saw it as a conspiracy to deny children (Reef , 2008

Poverty in the United States

Poverty can be measured either as absolute or relative poverty . Absolute poverty can be defined as a situation where individuals lack all the basic needs for their survival . This means that individuals lack the fundamental necessities for life like diet that meets their daily caloric and nutrient needs , shelter , clothing , safe drinking water , and others . In the world those living under such condition are generally considered as poor

On the other hand relative poverty is a measure that is adopted which goes with the standard of living in the society . In this case individuals may not lack basic necessities like in absolute poverty but compared with the standards of life of those...