Child Poverty In Our Society

Poverty has become a great issue in our society. Though many organizations have been created to find solutions for this matter nobody can save our society completely from poverty. Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. Over the past 40 years one in six newborns were born poor and nearly half remained poor half their childhoods. These poor children are nearly 90 percent more likely than non poverty-stricken children to enter their 20s without completing high school and are four times more likely to give birth without marriage during their teenage years. Children whose parents did not complete high school are less likely to complete high school themselves. Poverty is an issue in our society because children are not developing properly, our economy is suffering, and it can affect many people even if they don't live in poverty.
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Poverty is costing our country 500 billion per year in lost productivity. Year after year the lost productivity and extra health costs associated with it add up to nearly half a trillion dollars. Due to the excessive lost in productivity we can never measure are the countless innovations and discoveries that did not occur for our nation because children’s potentials were stunted by poverty. Child poverty dropped 36 percent between 1967 and 2012 when income from tax credits and in-kind benefits like nutrition and housing assistance are counted. Ending child poverty would save lives and money and increase productivity.
The effects of early childhood poverty are long-lasting and not simply corrected by better financial security later in life. Early childhood poverty places children at greater risk of exposure to negative developmental factors at a critical time for cognitive development. The results are deeply damaging, and effects are often carried into adulthood regardless of improved financial situation later