Post by doublestuf on May 31, 2018 17:32:42 GMT -6
www.npr.org/2018/05/31/615578001/report-rural-poverty-in-america-is-an-emergency
"There are three childhood disruptors that account for why the U.S. ranking is relatively low, says Miles, "One was our infant mortality rate, which is by global standards, pretty high. The second was the teen pregnancy rate, which, although it's getting better in the United States, it's still, again, globally quite high," Miles says. And then the third was the number of children that are actually victims of homicide in the United States."
"When child poverty is compared across wealthy countries and before taking into account government assistance programs, he says, there's not that much difference between child poverty in the U.S. and child poverty in the well-off nations.
"But because those countries have a stronger safety net, fewer children [in those countries] live in poverty."
"There are three childhood disruptors that account for why the U.S. ranking is relatively low, says Miles, "One was our infant mortality rate, which is by global standards, pretty high. The second was the teen pregnancy rate, which, although it's getting better in the United States, it's still, again, globally quite high," Miles says. And then the third was the number of children that are actually victims of homicide in the United States."
"When child poverty is compared across wealthy countries and before taking into account government assistance programs, he says, there's not that much difference between child poverty in the U.S. and child poverty in the well-off nations.
"But because those countries have a stronger safety net, fewer children [in those countries] live in poverty."
