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"America Is Guilty of Neglecting Kids...
...Our Own"
!!!!
Its not just the kids at the border.
America systematically shortchanges tens of millions of children, including homegrown kids. The upshot is that American kids are more likely to be poor, to drop out of high school and even to die young than in other advanced countries...
Alston told me that theres a very direct link between the mistreatment of immigrant children at the border and the indifference toward low-income children all across the country. The core reason, he suggested, is a lack of compassion.
Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, protested the U.N. report, saying, It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America.
Really, Ambassador Haley?
...a study (shows) that if the U.S. invested in effective early childhood programs, the lifelong benefits would be so transformative that American inequality could be reduced to Canadian levels.
We already have a model: When Tony Blair was the British prime minister he undertook a major campaign against child poverty and cut it nearly in half.
Trump is moving in the opposite direction, cutting benefit programs in ways that will hurt poor kids. Trumps tax cuts add to the deficit meaning that we are partying and sticking children with the bill.
A national, bipartisan outcry forced Trump to back down from tearing immigrant children from their parents arms at the border; that was a shared outpouring of compassion that represented our countrys best. Now we need a similar outcry on behalf of all of Americas children.
America systematically shortchanges tens of millions of children, including homegrown kids. The upshot is that American kids are more likely to be poor, to drop out of high school and even to die young than in other advanced countries...
Alston told me that theres a very direct link between the mistreatment of immigrant children at the border and the indifference toward low-income children all across the country. The core reason, he suggested, is a lack of compassion.
Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, protested the U.N. report, saying, It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America.
Really, Ambassador Haley?
...a study (shows) that if the U.S. invested in effective early childhood programs, the lifelong benefits would be so transformative that American inequality could be reduced to Canadian levels.
We already have a model: When Tony Blair was the British prime minister he undertook a major campaign against child poverty and cut it nearly in half.
Trump is moving in the opposite direction, cutting benefit programs in ways that will hurt poor kids. Trumps tax cuts add to the deficit meaning that we are partying and sticking children with the bill.
A national, bipartisan outcry forced Trump to back down from tearing immigrant children from their parents arms at the border; that was a shared outpouring of compassion that represented our countrys best. Now we need a similar outcry on behalf of all of Americas children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/nikki-haley-united-states-extreme-poverty.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_nk_20180705&nl=nickkristof&nl_art=0&nlid=65189552emc%3Dedit_nk_20180705&ref=headline&te=1
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"America Is Guilty of Neglecting Kids... (Original Post)
handmade34
Jul 2018
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iamateacher
(1,088 posts)1. This is true
I was a teacher and a social worker, and I can attest to the mistreatment of poor children in this country. Thank you for posting.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)2. K&R for visibility. nt
rurallib
(62,346 posts)3. take away their health care, ruin their schools, impoverish their parents
avoid doing anything that could control guns, cut food programs on and on and on.
We treat our children like they are the enemy.
And to add insult to injury we have schools teach lies to the kids in the form of creationism or false history.