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Poverty and children in the United States
Poverty by definition means: “State of being poor. The state of not having enough money to take care of basic needs such as food, clothing, and housing.� (Encarta dictionary) That is a word that many of us ignore, yet poverty among children in the United States is problem that is not going to solve itself. People today are not concerned with the troubles of others like they were in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Communities back then looked out for each other. When one family was lacking the community pulled together to ensure the family had what they needed. Today communities are not that way. People only look out for their own well being. With modernization there comes social change and sometimes those changes are not for the better when it comes to today’s children living in poverty.
There have been many different studies to determine the percentage of children living in poverty. The United States Census Bureau’s......

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