America's shame - children in poverty
by teacherken
Sat Dec 25, 2010 at 04:19:55 AM PST
According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 42 percent of American childrenlive in low-income homes and about a fifth live in poverty. It gets worse. The number of children living in poverty has risen 33 percent since 2000. For perspective, the child population of the country over all increased by only about 3 percent over that time. And, according to a 2007 Unicef report on child poverty, the U.S. ranked last among 24 wealthy countries.
That is the 2nd paragraph of a powerful - and important - column by Charles Blow in today's New York Times, Suffer the Little Children.
The last sentence of that paragraph, that we are last among 24 wealthy countries, should embarrass