America has a very complex history of race relations. There has been a miscarriage of justice over the generations. Child poverty has at least three main causes, said Aver. They are the increase in single- parent families, the gap between education and what it takes to make it in this economy and immigration. One or two other things affect child poverty also.
European countries have very similar economies.
They actually give families a payment to help them raise their kids. If you make child care and health care universally supported, that puts more money in families' pockets because they don't have to spend that money on those services. That's why Europe has much lower child poverty rates than our country. Aver said we could learn from Europe, but they could learn some things from us. We need to make work that is available for people without grand educations pay a decent living wage.