Child Poverty Child Poverty seems to be one of the major problems in the United States. Here I will tell about different authors' points of view on child poverty and how child poverty was created, the effects and some of the solutions the authors had came up with. I will start off by introducing the authors I will be talking about. Jonathon Marshall wrote the article "Child Poverty Is Abundant" as a summary of a …
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…work, then $40.00 for transportation and many other things. Being a single parent, once again, which most of the authors agree on, is one of the reason's why our child poverty is increasing so highly. Another reason they believe poverty is so high is because of the Government. Sherman states, that by government standards your yearly income is several hundred dollars above the 1992 poverty line; you are not, in the eyes of the government, officially poor.