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Education and Poverty in America

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Education and Poverty in America

Introduction

Six years ago the United Nations Millennium Development Goals identified poverty reduction and essential aspects of human development to be at the core of economic development . The number one international development goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger and the second is to achieve universal primary education . The focus on income provides a clear way of assessing the extent of impoverishment for the sake of marking achievements and failures since data on

non-income disparities can provide ambiguous results . However , there is consensus among the international community that poverty , particularly long-term poverty , is a much more complex phenomenon . Universal primary education has been shown to be a crucial element in breaking the cross-generational cycle of poverty and a fundamental building block for sustainable development (United Nations , 2006

The poverty rate continues to rise in the United States . In 2000 , the overall U .S . poverty rate was 9 .3 , and the poverty rate among female-headed households with children and no spouse was 35 .4 . By comparison , in 2005 , the overall U .S . poverty rate was 10 .1 , and the poverty rate among female-headed households with children and no spouse was 37 .6 percent (U .S . Census Bureau , 2006 "We must make two years of college - the 13th and 14th years of education - as universal for young Americans as the first 12 are today And , we must make college affordable for all Americans (Clinton , 1997 "The question I like to ask every child I visit in the classroom is 'Are you going to college ' In this great country , we expect every child regardless of how he or she is raised , to go to college . That 's the goal we want every child to have (Bush , 2001 . Yet , despite the inspiring policy pronouncements of both Presidents Clinton and Bush , the United States has not extended this commitment of educational opportunity to recipients of the nation 's welfare program . In fact , recent policy has placed welfare recipients in a class by themselves - denied the opportunities to pursue this traditional avenue of upward mobility (Center for Women Policy Studies , 2002

Thus , a discussion of the benefits education may yield in a capitalistic society , which value independence will provide information towards providing opportunities for impoverished family members on welfare . This examines and discusses how education is important to the poor to get rid of poverty in America . Then it discussed the importance higher education may have with former welfare recipients as individuals and society as a whole

Poverty and Welfare System in U .S

From the inception of the U .S . welfare system , a dichotomy of opinion has existed regarding how to reform this system . Policy-makers disagree about the best way to move people from the welfare roles and into productive work that will enable them to escape poverty . As a result two primary strategies to welfare reform exist they are "education-first " and "work-first

Gueron and Hamilton (2002 ) described proponents of...