The World Bank measures poverty as living on less than $1.25 a day. Ouch. About 15%, or say, 50ish million people in the U.S.A. are enduring poverty under this definition.

 

Roughly 20% of the 67 million children in the United States are battling poverty. That's one in every five! As a teen myself, I understand how fortunate I am. And how unfortunate so many others are. 

 

So let's talk a little more about child poverty vs general poverty. Just by looking at that simple statistic, you can jump to the conclusion that it's far more impactful, and you'd be correct in saying so. 

 

Children suffering from poverty have much to endure. The rate of child poverty is about double that of poverty in adults in the world. Each day, about twenty-one thousand kids die from poverty. Just stop and think about that for a moment. That's 7,665,000 dead kids in a year. It's even worse that child poverty is more permanent that adult poverty. Poverty is the greatest threat to children.

 

Children also suffer from poverty than adults do. Adults suffer from lack of income, but children are deprived of school and enough to eat. 

 

And despite all this, child poverty is neglected as a catagory. We are leading ourselves into crisis. And nobody is realizing it.