Low public school spending produces educational results similar to those of poor Third World countries. The U.S. rates highest in levels of child neglect, abuse, violence, including murder and suicide, addiction, adolescent pregnancy, and incarceration of youth again compared to Western industrial nations and Japan. Cuts in military spending, which takes 49 cents for every federal tax dollar. Future savings from prisons and police not needed as well has costly neglect from poor health care, education and unemployment. Let us inform ourselves and our communities of the tragic American war on our non-affluent young and their families.
Equal opportunity is essential for a functional, just and democratic society.
This is being denied to America's non-affluent children and youth by the corporate dominance of public policy and opinion. Despite claims to the contrary, the market economy and charity will never do the job. There is no issue that has a greater potential for uniting victims of corporate dominance than the struggle to rescue children. Remember Hitler's Germany. Silence is denial.