7 Ways That Poverty Effects Children
Poverty is full of hardships that are both seen and unseen. In the United States, alone, more than 20 percent of children under the age of 18 are officially “poor." For the federal government, this means that these children live in a household whose family income falls below the poverty line: a number that is set by the Census Bureau at three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, updated annually for inflation using the Consumer Price Index, and adjusted for family size, composition, and age of householder; for a family of four, this number fell at $24,563 in 2016. These statistics, however, are even more alarming when we consider the fact that most of these numbers stems from children living under the age of 5: the years of rapid brain development. As such, these children end up at a disadvantage, both mentally and physically, when compared to higher-income based families.
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