Children in Poverty in the United States

source: https://blogs.msn.com/empoweringkids/how-many-children-live-in-poverty-in-your-state?ocid=spartandhp

There is an interesting blog on MSN website about poverty among children in the US, the richest country and a place where the richest person in the world also resides and which is the country where he became the richest. It is authored by Evan Comen, and he provides an amazing and heart-wrenching statistics of children in poverty in the US, by each state, and in alphabetical order. California, the most liberal state in the United States is home to the most number of children in poverty. The reader should also remember that the poverty line set by the Federal government is very low, and no family can survive with an annual income even twice as much as the poverty line. This is the line that is used to determine level of poverty in this article. The statistics begin with a short description:

Throughout the United States, 18.4% of Americans under age 18 — a total of 13.4 million children — live in poverty, one of the highest child poverty rates of any developed nation. Children born into poverty are likely to continue to live in impoverished circumstances as adults. In a 2017 study from the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty that tracked 18,000 individuals since 1968, researchers found that only 16% of children who spent a majority of their childhoods in poverty were living above the poverty line between the ages of 25 and 30. Poverty in America also disproportionately affects minority families and exacerbates existing socioeconomic inequalities along racial lines.

States with higher childhood poverty rates tend to perform poorly in other socioeconomic factors, such as lower educational attainment rate, higher unemployment, and higher rates of food insecurity, all of which can ultimately lead to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy. These are places where poverty is causing bad diets.

According to a 2019 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the lower productivity, higher crime rates, and worse health outcomes that result from child poverty cost the United States between $800 billion and $1.1 trillion a year.

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