Child poverty is a choice
By JUDD LEGUM, TESNIM ZEKERIA, and REBECCA CROSBY
(EXCERPT)
The long-term consequences of child poverty are severe. As Indivar Dutta-Gupta, President of the Center for Law and Social Policy, explained during Congressional testimony in July, “poverty also harms children by imposing high levels of stress on their parents, which impairs their capacity to give their children the care and attention any child needs to thrive.” As a result, children who experience poverty at any time are “far more likely than their peers to fail to finish high school, become parents as teens, and experience poverty as adults.”
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