How To Reduce Child Poverty In America

"Our American answer to poverty is not to make the poor more secure in their poverty, but to reach down and to help them lift themselves out of the ruts of poverty and move with the large majority along the high road of hope and prosperity."() This statement from an old-time Democrat share the role that our government should be playing to abolish poverty is to help those people who can't afford to raise their kids. And I believe that the most effective way to break the cycle of poverty is to raise the minimum wage. This would reduce child poverty in America and give families more financial support. Also, when kids have financial support, studies show that they will have less behavioral problems.

Making better minimum wages would reduce child poverty in America. According to the article, "How to end child poverty in America", "...boosting the tipped worker wage to $7.07, could reduce U.S. child poverty by 4%…"() This shows that adjusting the wages would "help lift 400,000 American kids out of poverty", according to the Children's Defense Fund report. By giving minimum wage workers more money, they will be able to financially support
Pam Fessler states in her article, "...they're seeing more families ripped apart — by drug abuse, domestic violence and mental illness."() This shows that the strain of living with adults who are overwhelmed by not being paid enough to support their children, is causing major violence and families being split apart. "Kids who were lifted out of poverty... saw behavioral problems decrease 40%."() This shows that increasing the minimum wage and lifting so many children out of poverty actually reduces the amount of criminal activity that is happening. To finish, the kids that are committing crimes and being aggressive are the ones that are in poverty and there is a simple solution to it— raising the current minimum