US is a 'world leader' in child poverty

[Anathema]

You are completely missing the point. I am totally shocked to notice this.

Then why don't you "educate" me.

 

[Meathead]

A key quote from the OP:

"[Children's] material well-being is highest in the Netherlands and in the four Nordic countries and lowest in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United States."

Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty.

Anyone who knows the history of the Iron Curtain knows how terribly the USSR literally raped these three little countries of their natural resources, leaving them as poor as can be. To see the name "United States" next to those three baltic states is indeed a shock.

Yeah, because Romania is a small Baltic state. Could you tell us again how 100s of thousands of Belgians died in Rotterdam.

Seriously, you are worse in geography (especially for someone who claims to live in Europe) than you are in math.

Again, being a lonely gay Jewish in Germany is not an excuse.

 

[pinqy]

A key quote from the OP:

"[Children's] material well-being is highest in the Netherlands and in the four Nordic countries and lowest in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United States."

Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty.

Anyone who knows the history of the Iron Curtain knows how terribly the USSR literally raped these three little countries of their natural resources, leaving them as poor as can be. To see the name "United States" next to those three baltic states is indeed a shock.

Yeah, because Romania is a small Baltic state. Could you tell us again how 100s of thousands of Belgians died in Rotterdam.

Seriously, you are worse in geography (especially for someone who claims to live in Europe) than you are in math.

Again, being a lonely gay Jewish in Germany is not an excuse.

Wait, you claim Romania is a Bsltic country and them criticize someone else for poor geography?????

The irony.

 

[Meathead]

A key quote from the OP:

"[Children's] material well-being is highest in the Netherlands and in the four Nordic countries and lowest in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United States."

Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty.

Anyone who knows the history of the Iron Curtain knows how terribly the USSR literally raped these three little countries of their natural resources, leaving them as poor as can be. To see the name "United States" next to those three baltic states is indeed a shock.

Yeah, because Romania is a small Baltic state. Could you tell us again how 100s of thousands of Belgians died in Rotterdam.

Seriously, you are worse in geography (especially for someone who claims to live in Europe) than you are in math.

Again, being a lonely gay Jewish in Germany is not an excuse.

Wait, you claim Romania is a Bsltic country and them criticize someone else for poor geography?????

The irony.

If you sober up, I suggest you follow the thread, then reassess who suggested Romania was a small Baltic nation.

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

 

[Meathead]

A key quote from the OP:

"[Children's] material well-being is highest in the Netherlands and in the four Nordic countries and lowest in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United States."

Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty.

Anyone who knows the history of the Iron Curtain knows how terribly the USSR literally raped these three little countries of their natural resources, leaving them as poor as can be. To see the name "United States" next to those three baltic states is indeed a shock.

Yeah, because Romania is a small Baltic state. Could you tell us again how 100s of thousands of Belgians died in Rotterdam.

Seriously, you are worse in geography (especially for someone who claims to live in Europe) than you are in math.

Again, being a lonely gay Jewish in Germany is not an excuse.

Wait, you claim Romania is a Bsltic country and them criticize someone else for poor geography?????

The irony.

If you sober up, I suggest you follow the thread, then reassess who suggested Romania was a small Baltic nation.

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

 

[kiwiman127]

This is a pretty sad situation, no matter how these kids got poor.
But here we are, the world's weathiest country who has "In God We Trust" on our money and "under God" in our Pledge of Alligence and innocent kids are treated this way.
Ask yourself, what would God do?

 

[Stephanie]

This is a pretty sad situation, no matter how these kids got poor.
But here we are, the world's weathiest country who has "In God We Trust" on our money and "under God" in our Pledge of Alligence and innocent kids are treated this way.
Ask yourself, what would God do?

who say's we are the "wealthiest" anymore?

we are being taxed and fined by these governments. Giving out our monies for welfare, food stamps, medical, unemployment, etc etc. Yet we are suppose to BELIEVE we are number one in child poverty. SERIOUSLY

I'm glad you think we are so wealthy. just the people you vote and these people at the UN is that.

 

[DarkFury]

This is a pretty sad situation, no matter how these kids got poor.
But here we are, the world's weathiest country who has "In God We Trust" on our money and "under God" in our Pledge of Alligence and innocent kids are treated this way.
Ask yourself, what would God do?

China is now ranked number 1. Obozo did that two years ago with his DOUBLE credit downgrade.

 

[PredFan]

The Numbers Are Staggering: U.S. Is 'World Leader' in Child Poverty



By Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

April 13, 2015

America's wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion. In approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent.

Financier and CEO Peter Schiff said, "People don’t go hungry in a capitalist economy." The 16 million kids on food stamps know what it's like to go hungry. Perhaps, some in Congress would say, those children should be working. "There is no such thing as a free lunch," insisted Georgia Representative Jack Kingston, even for schoolkids, who should be required to "sweep the floor of the cafeteria" (as theyactually do at a charter school in Texas).

$5 a Day for Food, But Congress Thought it was Too Much.

Nearly half of all food stamp recipients are children, and they averaged about $5 a day for their meals before the 2014 farm bill cut $8.6 billion (over the next ten years) from the food stamp program.

For Every 2 Homeless Children in 2006, There Are Now 3

On a typical frigid night in January, 138,000 children, according to the U.S. Department of Housing, were without a place to call home.

That's about the same number of households that have each increased their wealth by $10 million per yearsince the recession.

The US: Near the Bottom in Education, and Sinking

The U.S. ranks near the bottom of the developed worldin the percentage of 4-year-olds in early childhood education. Early education should be a primary goal for the future, as numerous studies have shown that pre-school helps all children to achieve more and earn more through adulthood, with the most disadvantaged benefiting the most. But we're going in the opposite direction. Head Start was recently hit with the worst cutbacks in its history.

Children's Rights? Not in the U.S.

It's hard to comprehend the thinking of people who cut funding for homeless and hungry children. It may be delusion about trickle-down, it may be indifference to poverty, it may be resentment toward people unable to "make it on their own."

The indifference and resentment and disdain for society reach around the globe. Only two nations still refuse to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: South Sudan and the United States.


Kingston isn't the only Republican to say kids should work in their schools. Remember when Newt Gingrich said they should clean the toilets at school?

I realize they're not fetuses but we cannot let the Republicans get away with cutting food stamps.

Thanks Obama.

 

[jillian]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

Yes. Why let reality get in the way of your psychosis.

 

[jillian]

This is a pretty sad situation, no matter how these kids got poor.
But here we are, the world's weathiest country who has "In God We Trust" on our money and "under God" in our Pledge of Alligence and innocent kids are treated this way.
Ask yourself, what would God do?

China is now ranked number 1. Obozo did that two years ago with his DOUBLE credit downgrade.

Poor loony toon.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

A key quote from the OP:

"[Children's] material well-being is highest in the Netherlands and in the four Nordic countries and lowest in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United States."

Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty.

Anyone who knows the history of the Iron Curtain knows how terribly the USSR literally raped these three little countries of their natural resources, leaving them as poor as can be. To see the name "United States" next to those three baltic states is indeed a shock.

Countries with a much smaller tax base can manage to take care of their own people.

The US is all about destroying its citizens as well as other countries.

Many states' Republicans have cut the most basic services and will continue to cut more. And, while RWs vote for that to happen, they'll blame Obama.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

This is a pretty sad situation, no matter how these kids got poor.
But here we are, the world's weathiest country who has "In God We Trust" on our money and "under God" in our Pledge of Alligence and innocent kids are treated this way.
Ask yourself, what would God do?

The phony christians will tell you he'd kick them out of the way, just like they do.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

This is a pretty sad situation, no matter how these kids got poor.
But here we are, the world's weathiest country who has "In God We Trust" on our money and "under God" in our Pledge of Alligence and innocent kids are treated this way.
Ask yourself, what would God do?

China is now ranked number 1. Obozo did that two years ago with his DOUBLE credit downgrade.

Poor loony toon.

Repubs never take responsibility for what they do.

 

[Sunni Man]

Poverty in America is defined as a household that only has one TV with basic cable, and a land line instead of a cell phone. ...

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

The US is all about destroying its citizens.

translation: the most generous nation in the world is not raising its welfare entitlement payments fast enough to cripple every single citizen by 2020!!

Odd how our country invented freedom, saved the world through two world wars, and holds 80% of medical patents yet was founded by people who wanted freedom in a place where there was not one penny of welfare?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Start a thread and the same scum who don't care if kids are homeless and hungry will demand that more get born.

I am very proud that I am not and never could be a heartless hater, phony christian RW.

 

[jillian]

Poverty in America is defined as a household that only has one TV with basic cable, and a land line instead of a cell phone. ...

No brain dead terrorist supporter, it is defined as a family of four making less than $15,000 a year.

 

[SillyWabbit]

If this be true why the flood at the border?

Here I thought the US lead in childhood obesity.

Not to make light of such a serious subject...but Hell hath no fury like a hungry fat kid.
I know, I'm evil.

 

[Sunni Man]

I am very proud that I am no and never could be a heartless hater, phony christian RW.

I agree, you are just just a regular everyday type of heartless hater. .....