Approximately 14 million children are in poverty in the United States of America (U.S.). That is 14 million kids limited of resources like a good education. Children in poverty have difficulties learning and getting the resources they need to be successful. Poverty is defined as, “the state of being extremely poor”. Poverty affects 14.5% of Americans. The cause of this is believed to be from the government. The latest case of recovery found was that the Republican controlled congress into cutting billions of people’s food-stamp benefits and stopped extended unemployment benefits (Gongloff, huffingtonpost.com). This program gave people of unemployment 73 weeks to get back to working. However, with that program being cut in half and only given
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Thankfully, there are some organizations that go out of their way to help these kids in poverty. Hoping to make a difference and save kids from the unfair fate of poverty. One organization is Save the Children (STC), this organization coaches teachers to be more interactive and prep curriculums that are more effective for these kids. They also teach parents how to be more proactive in their kids’ education. STC also has volunteer opportunities for people to encourage and help kids with reading and math furthering their knowledge and hopefully breaking through to them to continue with education (savethechildren.org). Another organization is the Children’s Defense Fund. they help children come out of poverty as much as possible. They give them moral and spiritual support while also providing them protecting from neglect and abuse. This organization also provides health care which is very important as well (childrensdefense.org). Finally, National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), they target mostly the economic stand point of this. They try to help the parents by also helping the children. Like the other organizations they help the children get better educations and support but what makes them stand out is they try to target the family as a
Thankfully, there are some organizations that go out of their way to help these kids in poverty. Hoping to make a difference and save kids from the unfair fate of poverty. One organization is Save the Children (STC), this organization coaches teachers to be more interactive and prep curriculums that are more effective for these kids. They also teach parents how to be more proactive in their kids’ education. STC also has volunteer opportunities for people to encourage and help kids with reading and math furthering their knowledge and hopefully breaking through to them to continue with education (savethechildren.org). Another organization is the Children’s Defense Fund. they help children come out of poverty as much as possible. They give them moral and spiritual support while also providing them protecting from neglect and abuse. This organization also provides health care which is very important as well (childrensdefense.org). Finally, National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), they target mostly the economic stand point of this. They try to help the parents by also helping the children. Like the other organizations they help the children get better educations and support but what makes them stand out is they try to target the family as a