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Child Poverty

 

            Child hunger and poverty has become one of America's leading problems. It is a problem that affects a large number of children all over the country. There are many causes of child poverty and hunger. These causes are all directly or indirectly a result of people, whether it be the rich or the poor. This problem is recognized all over the world. The government has set up many programs to try to help, including The Second Harvest and the NCCP.
             Child hunger and poverty is a social problem. Not all problems are social; in order for a problem to be social it must first meet certain criteria. A social problem must affect a large number of people. Child hunger and poverty affects nearly sixteen million children under the age of eighteen.(NCCP) In November 2001, America's Second Harvest, a program that solicits donated food and grocery products from the nation's food and grocery industry and distributes it to hungry people across America, released its third hunger study: Hunger in America 2001. They researched some interesting facts and statistics on child hunger. Among all members of client households, 18.4% of kitchen clients stated that their child/children had skipped meals within the last twelve months because there was not enough money for food. Over 22.2% of shelter clients indicated that their child/children was/were hungry at least once during the previous twelve months but could not afford more food. (Second Harvest) A more conclusive study of Hunger in America 2001can be found on the Second Harvest website.
             The second criterion of a social problem is that is must be socially caused or caused by the actions of people. There are many reasons why there is poverty. The major is reason is because of disparities between rich and poor. Fewer people are becoming wealthy, but a disproportionately larger population is becoming poor, which leads to an increase in poverty. Poor people are not necessarily poor due to their own bad decisions, although in some cases this may prove to be true.


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1. Texas and the State of the Child

The culture affects the outcomes of child poverty as the state decides whether the policy they make is to treat child poverty or to prevent it. ... Of course if the spending is more on issues of child poverty, it would give a different outcome and it is likely that the state can reduce it. ... Even though there are many officials, the poor outcome of child poverty and child health care is a result of not paying enough attention to the matter. ... This contributes to poor outcomes as Texas is also ranked on 37th (lowest) state to pay enough attention to child poverty and welfare services. ... L...

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2. Poverty in America

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6. Poverty

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8. Outline The Challenges Faced By The Government In Abolishing Child Poverty

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This is Mott Haven, in New York City's South Bronx, the outback of this American nation's poorest congressional district, also the setting of Jonathan Kozol's disturbing representation of poverty in this country. ... Talking with parents and kids, social workers, religious leaders, and principals and teachers; struggling to try to understand how these children and parents cope with poverty and violence. ... They are tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardene...

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