US is a 'world leader' in child poverty

[gipper]

Well everyone knows our biggest problems are AGW, the Tea Party radicals, war on women by the right, inequality, racism....never mind ISIS, radical Islam, government tyranny and corruption.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Well everyone knows our biggest problems are AGW, the Tea Party radicals, war on women by the right, inequality, racism....never mind ISIS, radical Islam, government tyranny and corruption.

yes, liberal govt has us $20 trillion in debt, ISIS is beheading 1000's and about to cut off our oil and we must worry about white Christians!!

 

[pismoe]

they are foolish Edward , they think that they are separated from these muslim murderers by the sea and distance .

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

they are foolish Edward , they think that they are separated from these muslim murderers by the sea and distance .

I do agree, bio weapons make them very very dangerous indeed!! I doubt there has ever be a group so cold blooded and depraved in all of human history; yet the liberal is more worried about white christians.

 

[jon_berzerk]

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.

the war on poverty has been a complete failure

time to go in another direction

 

[jon_berzerk]

If this be true why the flood at the border?

Here I thought the US lead in childhood obesity.

good point

--LOL

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

the war on poverty has been a complete failure
time to go in another direction

The liberal war on poverty,
1) makes people dependent so increases poverty over generations
2) benifits are given to women so it destroys families, the man's role in particular.
3) benefits are not counted in poverty statistics so there is really no poverty in America
4) America's poor are 10 times richer than Bulgarias poor because numbers are relative
5) liberal off-shoring of 30 million parent's jobs causes poverty
6) liberal destruction of schools causes poverty
7) liberal acceptaance of hip-hip culture causes poverty.

China just demonstrated that Republican capitalism instantly eliminated 40% of world poverty. Thus we know how to eliminate poverty. Only liberalism stands in our way.

 

[pismoe]

they are foolish Edward , they think that they are separated from these muslim murderers by the sea and distance .

I do agree, bio weapons make them very very dangerous indeed!! I doubt there has ever be a group so cold blooded and depraved in all of human history; yet the liberal is more worried about white christians.

yeah , either its just something for them to say as they talk about some lynching or start talking about the defensive wars called the Crusades they just want to stop talk of current events . I've heard that 'liberalism' is a mental disease and I believe that to be true !!

 

[Stephanie]

they are foolish Edward , they think that they are separated from these muslim murderers by the sea and distance .

I do agree, bio weapons make them very very dangerous indeed!! I doubt there has ever be a group so cold blooded and depraved in all of human history; yet the liberal is more worried about white christians.

yeah , either its just something for them to say as they talk about some lynching or start talking about the defensive wars called the Crusades they just want to stop talk of current events . I've heard that 'liberalism' is a mental disease and I believe that to be true !!

Yes it's true. we saw it in this thread. it's never pretty either.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

. I've heard that 'liberalism' is a mental disease and I believe that to be true !!

The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr. and M.D. (Oct 30, 2006)
(60 customer reviews)

 

[CultureCitizen]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

IOW, let the children starve in the streets.

Though a 60% increase in child poverty is astounding and unacceptable , that doesn't make the US a "leader in child poverty". There are nations with much more higher indexes of child poverty.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

BS

That's all

more propaganda coming from the UN and their cult members

IOW, let the children starve in the streets.

Though a 60% increase in child poverty is astounding and unacceptable , that doesn't make the US a "leader in child poverty". There are nations with much more higher indexes of child poverty.

So 'other nations are worse' is an excuse for the the US?

 

[pismoe]

aw , the USA is fine , the best in the world for the mass of 320 million americans plus the millions of illegals in the USA in just about every category Luddely .

 

[Luddly Neddite]

aw , the USA is fine , the best in the world for the mass of 320 million americans plus the millions of illegals in the USA in just about every category Luddely .

No, actually, we're not.

If you disagree with the figures in the OP, please post proof.

Thanks.

 

[pinqy]

aw , the USA is fine , the best in the world for the mass of 320 million americans plus the millions of illegals in the USA in just about every category Luddely .

No, actually, we're not.

If you disagree with the figures in the OP, please post proof.

Thanks.

The figures are ok enough, but the headline is misleading. It claims world leader, but the article clarifies to mean #4 out of developed countries. That's a far cry from world leader.

 

[pismoe]

hey Pinqy , its BS anyway , whens the last time you saw some kid in a ditch covered with flies and his rib cage sticking out . Only ones that starve in the USA are old drunks or those drug users whose sense of self preservation is destroyed !!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

aw , the USA is fine , the best in the world for the mass of 320 million americans plus the millions of illegals in the USA in just about every category Luddely .

No, actually, we're not.

If you disagree with the figures in the OP, please post proof.

Thanks.

The figures are ok enough, but the headline is misleading. It claims world leader, but the article clarifies to mean #4 out of developed countries. That's a far cry from world leader.

No.

If the article said THE world leader, you would be correct.

But fourth from the worst is hardly "fine" or "best in the world".

Not only that, for the child who goes to bed hungry or doesn't have a bed to sleep in, being the worst is no worse than being #4.

Instead of arguing degrees of inexcusable, we should be working to be the "best in the world" at feeding all our people.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

hey Pinqy , its BS anyway , whens the last time you saw some kid in a dich covered with flies and his rib cage sticking out . Oly ones that starve in the USA are old drunks or those drug users whose sense of self preservation is destroyed !!

So, we must have children covered in flies, starving in a [sic] dich before we act?

 

[pismoe]

think I said thatt he article is BS Luddley !!

 

[pinqy]

aw , the USA is fine , the best in the world for the mass of 320 million americans plus the millions of illegals in the USA in just about every category Luddely .

No, actually, we're not.

If you disagree with the figures in the OP, please post proof.

Thanks.

The figures are ok enough, but the headline is misleading. It claims world leader, but the article clarifies to mean #4 out of developed countries. That's a far cry from world leader.

No.

If the article said THE world leader, you would be correct.

But fourth from the worst is hardly "fine" or "best in the world". .

But it's not fourth from the worst...it's fourth from the worst of the best in the world.

There is absolutely no comparison between child povety in the U.S. and child poverty in much of Africa, Asia, and South America.