American Youth Have a Pretty High Chance of Being Born into Poverty - Polidicks

[quote] Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Using the latest available data from the American Community Survey, NCCP researchers found that in 2015, while 30 percent of adults have low incomes, more than 40 percent of all children live in low-income families -- including 5.2 million infants and toddlers under 3. Despite significant gains in household income and reductions in the overall poverty rate in recent years, 43 percent (30.6 million) of America's children are living in families barely able to afford their most basic needs, according to Basic Facts about Low-Income Children, the center's annual series of profiles on child poverty in America. "While food assistance, public health insurance, and other programs have certainly had a mitigating effect on poverty for many families, the fact remains that in the United States young children have close to a one in two chance of living on the brink of poverty," said Renée Wilson-Simmons, DrPH, NCCP director. "But being a child in a low-income or poor family doesn't happen by chance, and neither should our approach to alleviating child poverty. In the coming weeks, hundreds of new leaders will take the helm at agencies responsible for implementing policies that touch the lives of poor children and affect their odds of success in life. It's imperative that they do so with a real understanding of the disadvantages millions of Americans face from very young ages and what growing up poor looks like in America." [/quote] source: [url]https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/cums-ayc020817.php[/url]

We can't put our money into this welfare royalty. We have to spend it on our defenses from the spooky illegal immigrants and terrifying refugees. It'd take too much to help these bums when we have to focus on stopping the "mass murder" of babies in the womb by whoores and the disabling of god's work through dreaded birth control. We need to spend it on forcing our infallible abrahamic literature into education and stop indoctrination by so called "experts". We need to get oil pipelines, those Indians will just have to get bottled water.These whiners need a good spanking and a thorough shouting of how they need to pull themselves up by the boot straps! [sp]But really we need to help these families and make sure the future generation can live successfully. It'd be vital to stop this foolish spending on the oligarchs and warmongering, instead spending it to help bring the most vulnerable among us a better future.[/sp]

What was that? Youth being born into poverty much more likely nowadays? BETTER RISE THE PRICE FOR EDUCATION THEN! I just don't understand US education. I just don't.

A major contributing factor to this is that poor people tend to have more kids than the financially well off or highly educated. That's true even if you specifically don't factor in welfare queens that have kids (that they neglect) for the purposes of getting more government money.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51805915]Welfare queens are such a small minority. A cycle of poverty has a lot to do with it. You're poor as shit, then you have 2 children that are poor as shit, then those children make grand-babies that are poor as shit. Since you're poor, you're probably also dumb. You don't do/can't afford safe sex or higher education. So you have to work with what you can get, just barely being able to afford a standard living. What money you do have left over, you blow on dumb shit because it is your only happiness outlet in your life/no one taught you how to budget because you're poor.[/QUOTE] That. The quality of life of an individual is pretty much decided by how much money does their family own, because that decides almost everything these days. It's sad.

[QUOTE]In the coming weeks, hundreds of new leaders will take the helm at agencies responsible for implementing policies that touch the lives of poor children and affect their odds of success in life. It's imperative that they do so with a real understanding of the disadvantages millions of Americans face from very young ages and what growing up poor looks like in America.[/QUOTE] Considering the number of corporate fatcats that've been named to Trump's cabinet, this is the height of optimism. I'd like to believe that the Trump administration is going to pass effective measures to tackle this crisis, because the road to making America great again is not one that involves a massive impoverished uneducated underclass. I've yet to see evidence. I don't think America can call itself the greatest country in the world if almost half its children live on poverty. Most of the developed world is ahead of it.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51805915]Welfare queens are such a small minority.[/QUOTE] Hence why I said that trend remains true even when you completely eliminate them from the data. They definitely exist, but they are a pretty insignificant drain on the net economy.

[QUOTE=Dom Pyroshark;51805794]What was that? Youth being born into poverty much more likely nowadays? BETTER RISE THE PRICE FOR EDUCATION THEN! I just don't understand US education. I just don't.[/QUOTE] USA has been stolen by greedy people.

Can confirm, was american youth, was born into near poverty and still struggle to try to climb out of it.

I grew up in poverty. Parents started abusing meth when i was 2. They would spend all their real money on meth and rent, and we'd end up with no money for food. I distinctly remember crying when i dropped the last slice of leftover pizza one time, and my mom throwing it away even though i was starving. I am white, and the state was the only ones that helped out, the rest of my family knowing that my parents were meth addicts.