Why Being a Poor Kid in America Is Particularly Awful

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5. Yes it is

The younger children are the poorer they are. Nearly 1 in 4 children under age five is poor during the years of greatest brain development. Almost half of these children (47.9 percent) live in extreme poverty.


Although there was a drop in the number of poor children, it was statistically insignificant. The numbers continue to be staggering, especially when we know there are steps our Congressional leaders could take right now to end child poverty. “In Ending Child Poverty Now, CDF’s report released earlier this year, we proposed nine policy changes – to increase employment and make work pay more and ensure children’s basic needs are met – that could reduce child poverty by 60 percent and Black child poverty by 72 percent,” said Marian Wright Edelman, CDF’s President. “But rather than moving forward with these changes, Congress is perilously close to again moving backwards, leaving in place harmful budget caps and causing further deep cuts in many of the very programs we know work to help poor children. "

http://www.childrensdefense.org/newsroom/cdf-in-the-news/press-releases/2015/2015NationalPovertyData.html