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When one thinks of poverty often the mental picture that comes to mind is of single parent on welfare, who is dependent and unemployment. The impact of poverty, the destruction of crime and stigmatization of the violence on the children is more devastating and irreversible than the miseducation and illiteracy that most often accompanies poverty. There are many factors that contribute towards poverty but the ones with the most impact are government corruption, crime, substance abuse and a lack of education.
Government plays the most important role in the development of a country and whether or not the people of the society are well taken care of. So when corruption becomes part of a government the effects become disastrous especially for the ones who deserve it the least, the children. The children are our future, "yet one out of five children live in poverty; an estimated twelve million children". When there is an economic recession, stagnant wages, layoffs, and rising......

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