The Cost Of Child Poverty By Alana Slums

Society today has shown us that more and more families are slowly going into poverty and losing their homes because of financial problems. Jeff Madrick The Cost of Child Poverty and Alana Semuels The Resurrection of America’s Slums both agree on the fact that the human population is incapable of supporting ourselves. Both articles main points are similar to the two discussing poverty within our world and how it affects humanity and the American society.
In The Cost of Child Poverty, Jeff Madrick writes that “ In international comparisons that up to 20 percent of the youth population is that one in five children is poor. The race that truly gets into poverty is the blacks, one in two blacks gets born into poverty and the main reason is that …show more content…
Alana Semuels comments on that in her article, The Resurrection of America's Slum, “ Research out this year from Harvard shows that children who moved from poor areas to more affluent had higher incomes and better educational achievements than those who stayed in poor areas ” (255). In these cases, both authors suggest that if the poor families were to move into a better environment that would help them strive and better their future for them and their kids tremendously both educationally and …show more content…
Both authors also believe that everybody should do their part to help out because a small deed can go a long way because what you do can impact the family major and set them up for success for their life to strive well in the future because we are all we got, once we are gone that is it, ain't nobody gonna help us. We got one shot to help make our society thrive and that is all we get, you can help give the families a second chance at life, and if you will not do it for the adults, do it for the children, let them at least have a chance at a better life so that they will not end up like their parents. Let the children thrive at least so that they will not ever have to be in that situation