America Needs More Government Programs to Pull Children Out of Poverty

The United States is facing a change of poverty. When telling someone is living in poverty, we tend to think about the street life, the meals at the shelter, and the noise of alcohol, medicine and cigarettes they use. Usually imagine this man as a middle-aged man wearing monotonous clothes and long beard. This explanation may be suitable for the general population who lived in poverty and streets several years ago, but it is no longer a correct summary. In 2015, children are facing poverty.

"If there are no government plans and no one in five people in poverty, one third of children will live in poverty," Dreier said. "We are not going to fight for them to live, we need to upgrade and upgrade them." He said good news is that such good supplemental nutrition programs (or food stamps), WIC and school meal plan , And forever a certain tax deduction. I will plan. The National Health Service and NURSE Corps are planning to offer funds and scholarships to primary care physicians and students in exchange for services in poor aid communities. According to the NHSC website, nearly 10,000 medical, dental, nursing, doctor assistant, and behavioral and mental health experts provide primary care services to people who have not received millions of services .

The country should face two facts: the poverty rate is particularly high for children in particular, and it is only a partial solution to spending money on projects the government investigated through economic situations. In order to carry out effective poverty war it is necessary to change personal decision of younger Americans. Government expenditure is not most effective in eradicating poverty unless young people receive more education, get more work and allow the babies to live outside their married life. Meanwhile, it provided government support to increase incentives and compensation for low-income employment, redesigned the public's welfare program to encourage marriage, and ultimately achieved the poverty reduction effort that President Johnson imagined .

Today, the government has spent 16 times through the economic survey, the inflation adjustment, welfare or poverty control program than the beginning of the poverty war. However, with the rapid increase in welfare expenditure, the decline of poverty is also stagnant. As shown in Figure 2, as the amount expended by the government increases, poverty efforts are not progressing. There is a brief explanation on large poverty reduction expenditure and certain poverty rate issues. If the household's income is below a certain threshold, the Census Bureau treats it as a "poor", but when calculating "income", the census almost ignores government spending on the poor through economic survey To do. Indeed, when calculating poverty, we ignore most welfare states. This ingenious bureaucratic strategy ensures that welfare programs grow infinitely while "poverty" remains the same