Child Poverty Issue Paper
Emily Perdue
English 102
Issue Paper
Child Poverty
Poverty effects many people around the word, it is an underling issue to many factors in life. There have been many statistics written about poverty and the numbers are always changing. You can go from being rich to poor in minutes, from having a house to being homeless in a matter of seconds, but it can take almost a life time to get your life back on track. If you are born into poverty the statistics show you are less likely to ever get out of poverty; but why is that? What are the true reasons for that statement, you ask? The world around us, for the reason that a child born into poverty clearly do not have the same opportunity’s as a child born just above the poverty line. I personally …show more content…
believe that all children should have the same opportunities and live the same healthy life with or without money. According to feedingamerica.org •in 2013, 14.7 million (19.9 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
Meaning that 19.9 percent of children in America were hungry, not well clothed, not well taken care of, and not well educated. That’s 19.9 percent more children America sent out into the world to repeat and not beat the statistics. Research shows that a child who suffers from poverty also suffers malnutrition and lack of health care, both of these are reason children are distracted in school or don’t even show up to school to be educated. A Study by the U.S Department of Health, Education, and Welfare reported that poor children suffer 23 percent, they do not grow as tall as other children. Their more likely to have low hemoglobin values during their years of growth and suffer incidence of impetigo, gastrointestinal diseases, parasitic diseases, and urinary-tract infections. (Shiller, …show more content…
2008). As I mentioned above children of poverty do not have the same educational opportunities.
They attend public schools from elementary to high school and very few go to college. They also have a harder time staying in school due to illness and those who do attend have a hard time focusing due to stress and/or depressions. Lack of education is the leading cause of poverty according to the table in the book, Economics of Poverty and Discrimination, 23.8 percent of people in poverty have no high school diploma, 10.8 percent have diploma (no college), 7.7 percent some college, and 3.6 percent are college graduates,(Shiller, 2008). Very many people suffer because they just can’t afford to go to college so the odds to getting a good job are rare because more education leads to higher income. . I believe that education is the biggest reason we continue to have high numbers in poverty, yet poverty is a good reason for lack of education. It is simply a never ending statistical circle, due to the government not stepping in to help for years and years. They just recently started raising the bar and passed the no kid left behind act, as well as sending home back packs with snacks in them every evening and bags of food home during the weekends, and giving grants such as the Pell to college students who can’t afford to go to
college. In conclusion if children who are born into poverty can get the help they need to get them through school, they can actually become something more than just another statistic and the poverty rate will decline by large numbers. You wouldn’t see as many people on the streets. You wouldn’t have millions of people needing government assistance such as food stamps and WIC. You would have a higher employment rate which would allow people to spend more money and get America out of debt. So educating and helping the people of poverty can really do some good for America in the long run.
References Schiller, B. (2008). The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination (Tenth ed.). Upper Saddle River: Person Education.
Hunger and Poverty Fact Sheet. (2014, January 1). Retrieved November 8, 2014, from http://www.citationmachine.net/apa/cite-a-website/manual Economic deprivation and early childhood development
GJ Duncan, J Brooks‐Gunn, PK Klebanov
Child development 65 (2), 296-318 Engle, P., & BLack, M. (n.d.). The Effect of Poverty on Child Development and Educational Outcomes. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=psycd_fac
WALKER,S. et al. 2007. Child development: risk factors for . GHUMAN,S. et al. 2006. Children’s Nutrition, School Quality, adverse outcomes in developing countries. Lancet 369: and Primary School Enrollment in the Philippines. Pop
145–157. ulation Council. http://www.unicef.org/earlychildhood/ EICKMANN,S.H. et al. 2003. Improved cognitive and motor index_resources.html. New York, NY. development in a community-based intervention of psy 84. BRITTO,P.,P.ENGLE &H.ALDERMAN. 2007. Early interven chosocial stimulation in northeast Brazil. Dev. Med. Child tion and caregiving: evidence from the Uganda nutrition
Neurol. 45: 536–541. and early child development program child and health POWELL,C. et al. 2004. Feasibility of integrating early stim education. Child Health Educ. 1: 112–133. ulation into primary care for undernourished Jamaican 85. VERDISCO,A. et al. 2007. Integrated Childhood Development
English 102
Issue Paper
Child Poverty
Poverty effects many people around the word, it is an underling issue to many factors in life. There have been many statistics written about poverty and the numbers are always changing. You can go from being rich to poor in minutes, from having a house to being homeless in a matter of seconds, but it can take almost a life time to get your life back on track. If you are born into poverty the statistics show you are less likely to ever get out of poverty; but why is that? What are the true reasons for that statement, you ask? The world around us, for the reason that a child born into poverty clearly do not have the same opportunity’s as a child born just above the poverty line. I personally …show more content…
believe that all children should have the same opportunities and live the same healthy life with or without money. According to feedingamerica.org •in 2013, 14.7 million (19.9 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
Meaning that 19.9 percent of children in America were hungry, not well clothed, not well taken care of, and not well educated. That’s 19.9 percent more children America sent out into the world to repeat and not beat the statistics. Research shows that a child who suffers from poverty also suffers malnutrition and lack of health care, both of these are reason children are distracted in school or don’t even show up to school to be educated. A Study by the U.S Department of Health, Education, and Welfare reported that poor children suffer 23 percent, they do not grow as tall as other children. Their more likely to have low hemoglobin values during their years of growth and suffer incidence of impetigo, gastrointestinal diseases, parasitic diseases, and urinary-tract infections. (Shiller, …show more content…
2008). As I mentioned above children of poverty do not have the same educational opportunities.
They attend public schools from elementary to high school and very few go to college. They also have a harder time staying in school due to illness and those who do attend have a hard time focusing due to stress and/or depressions. Lack of education is the leading cause of poverty according to the table in the book, Economics of Poverty and Discrimination, 23.8 percent of people in poverty have no high school diploma, 10.8 percent have diploma (no college), 7.7 percent some college, and 3.6 percent are college graduates,(Shiller, 2008). Very many people suffer because they just can’t afford to go to college so the odds to getting a good job are rare because more education leads to higher income. . I believe that education is the biggest reason we continue to have high numbers in poverty, yet poverty is a good reason for lack of education. It is simply a never ending statistical circle, due to the government not stepping in to help for years and years. They just recently started raising the bar and passed the no kid left behind act, as well as sending home back packs with snacks in them every evening and bags of food home during the weekends, and giving grants such as the Pell to college students who can’t afford to go to
college. In conclusion if children who are born into poverty can get the help they need to get them through school, they can actually become something more than just another statistic and the poverty rate will decline by large numbers. You wouldn’t see as many people on the streets. You wouldn’t have millions of people needing government assistance such as food stamps and WIC. You would have a higher employment rate which would allow people to spend more money and get America out of debt. So educating and helping the people of poverty can really do some good for America in the long run.
References Schiller, B. (2008). The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination (Tenth ed.). Upper Saddle River: Person Education.
Hunger and Poverty Fact Sheet. (2014, January 1). Retrieved November 8, 2014, from http://www.citationmachine.net/apa/cite-a-website/manual Economic deprivation and early childhood development
GJ Duncan, J Brooks‐Gunn, PK Klebanov
Child development 65 (2), 296-318 Engle, P., & BLack, M. (n.d.). The Effect of Poverty on Child Development and Educational Outcomes. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=psycd_fac
WALKER,S. et al. 2007. Child development: risk factors for . GHUMAN,S. et al. 2006. Children’s Nutrition, School Quality, adverse outcomes in developing countries. Lancet 369: and Primary School Enrollment in the Philippines. Pop
145–157. ulation Council. http://www.unicef.org/earlychildhood/ EICKMANN,S.H. et al. 2003. Improved cognitive and motor index_resources.html. New York, NY. development in a community-based intervention of psy 84. BRITTO,P.,P.ENGLE &H.ALDERMAN. 2007. Early interven chosocial stimulation in northeast Brazil. Dev. Med. Child tion and caregiving: evidence from the Uganda nutrition
Neurol. 45: 536–541. and early child development program child and health POWELL,C. et al. 2004. Feasibility of integrating early stim education. Child Health Educ. 1: 112–133. ulation into primary care for undernourished Jamaican 85. VERDISCO,A. et al. 2007. Integrated Childhood Development