Child poverty is not an act of God. It is only a reflection of society's political, economical and value choices. The fact that nearly half of all America's children under age six live in poverty or near poverty, demonstrates that young child poverty here is a mainstream occurrence affecting children from all racial and ethnic backgrounds, from all types of residential areas, and from all regions of the United States. The depth and breadth of poverty is such in the United States that there are more children suffering from hunger here in America than in Angola, Somalia, Haiti, Zimbabwe, El Salvador, or Cambodia . By definition, families below the poverty line cannot feed their children and pay the rent.
Food is what poor families scrimp and save on.
But most folks would like to help to fix this serious problem if they only knew how. The best thing is to sort of vaccinate yourself right into the big streams and blood of the people. To feel like you know the best and worst of folks that you see everywhere and never feel weak, or lost, or even lonesome anywhere. There is just one thing that can cut you to drifting from the people, and that's any brand or style of greed. There is just one way to save yourself, and that's to get together and work and fight for everybody.