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This article talks about how big of an issue poverty is. It gives facts about how it is measured and how poverty could be ended.

Poverty is a social injustice issue that needs to be talked about and have people be more aware of it as well. It is very sad to see people struggling due to poverty.

Poverty is a real big issue and the bigger it gets the harder it is going to be to finding a solution. A big percentage of people who do live in poverty are veterans.

The article describes how Individuals struggling with poverty are at risk and in danger of starvation and sanitation. Poverty has a negative impact on society, children, and violence.

In this entry, it explains the public poverty and more importantly the child poverty. It explains but also adds how they effect the other.

Poverty is a serious issue across the world. Starvation and illness can surge through low income and create a serious health risk for many.

Article stating statistics on children living in poverty. Discusses future chances of remaining in poverty and how this affects the child and our society.

This article talks about children being the poorest population in the United States and how poverty affects children and society. It also brings light to how government assistance programs can make a difference in a child's life.

You can also see a clear difference in the schools that are filled with children that live in poverty because of how underfunded they are due to schools getting most of their funding through property taxes.

Its surprising and unfortunate to read that children are the poorest population when they have no control over their situation.

The number of students who live in poverty is astonishing. Here, the National Center for Children in Poverty, provides these statistics and other publications relating to this travesty.

Child labor was a huge issue back in the day, and was forgotten. Recently, child labor has risen to be an issue again. Especially with all of the new electronic companies lately.

This article discusses the issue of child labor in China. Clearly, there are many reasons for the seeming necessity of child labor such as poverty, or lack of resources, but it is still remains a problem that has yet to be entirely resolved.

This is such a sad topic to talk about but needed to be done. Those kids are taken advantage of to the max.

I am glad you decided to share this issue regarding child labor. I noticed this article was posted 3 years ago, I wonder how much that number (11 million) has gone up since then. I like how this person provided us insight into how exactly child labor exists. This is definitely an issue that needs to be stopped.

As claimed by the World Bank, as of our present day, more than a billion people live not even on one dollar a day. Around 70% of them are females, and about half of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lives through it all at that level of income. Around every 4 seconds, one child dies out in the world due to a poverty issue.

Social justice issues the profession of social workers face. Written in 2007 the article captures issues still faced today such as poverty, healthcare, child welfare are a few subjects touched on.

Judith M. Schagrin is the assistant director for Children's Services at the Baltimore County Department of Social Services. Judith expressed her thoughts and concerns on multiply issues regarding child welfare and its system. She believes that our nation's child welfare system should be a national priority and she even made suggestions to fix this ongoing issue

In this site you'll learn about the parents who are living under dangerous conditions in the Bronx. Where 90% of families live in poverty and are expected to meet circumstances that most higher income parents fail to meet. These parents are being falsely charged with unintentional neglect.

It breaks my heart to read stories like these. Sleeping in a closet is just not normal and no one should have to live like that. I feel that not enough is being done to try to help those in actual poverty.

Child labor is one of the common issues in the world. Children loose childhood to work for food.

children should not have to work all they should do is worry about going to school. parents and people who should be taking care of them need to be held countable. children are loosing out of a lot of thing because of this/

Education in classrooms is learned. When children go home it is another story. Children are not to blame, because they grow up in a families that have financial struggles. It takes a village to raise a child.

Children should not be blamed for problems relating to educational success, schools should instead look at possible mental illnesses as well as treatment that occurs at home.