Watching Out For Th Kids: Child Poverty In America

Poverty is a problem that has not only stricken our shores, but as well as the other continents of the world. Poverty is not a term that is saved for those starving third world nations, depending no where you live you can probably drive twenty minutes from your own home and see it. It can be seen throughout every nation and country of the world from the most prosperous down to the most economically challenged state. It is an ugly scene that has become a regular occurrence ecumenically. Our government has grappled with the problem of poverty for as long as I can remember with countless rhetorical reforms that have proven to be in vain. The thing is that we as America must see that poverty is very detrimental to the success and furthering of our nation. That is if you believe the cliché of “today’s youth is the future of your nation”

The state of Wisconsin has found some of its own ways to deal with the child poverty in their state. Their first step was rforming their welfare prorgram from the inside out. When beginning the reform they started with the primise that every person is capable of doing something. The government figured if they are going to invest money as a society or as a state to help poor families, it makes sense to invest it in ways that will help them enter the workforce and become self-suffficient.

Like I said before, although poverty is prevalent, many countries and even individual states have taken initiative in regards to diminishing their poverty. In my research I have come to the conclusion that numerous countries have different views and methods in snuffing their child poverty. In Holland (or the Netherlands which ever you prefer) the Dutch have implemented a national research program on interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health.

Ed Broadbent, on November 24, 1989, in his final resolution in the House of Commons proposed to eliminate child poverty by 2000. Broadbent called the plight of poor children in Canada “a national shame, a national horror,” and he also stated that “Our obligation is to ensure that every kid in this country has the full opportunity to become all he or she become.” Well, in reality none of the promises that Broadbent spent endless harangues on never were followed through. Now child poverty in Canada is worse than it was in 1989, and the Canadian government has failed to provide for their most helpless constituents, the nations children. Now child poverty is up nearly 28% since 1989 and more than a million children live in households with incomes below what Statistics Canada calls the low-income cutoff. Being that the poor have to endure long waiting lists for subsidized housing, more families with young kids are ending up homeless. The number of people making goo

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