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Child Poverty and Inequality - Securing a Better Future for America's Children (Hardcover, New)
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Child Poverty and Inequality - Securing a Better Future for America's Children (Hardcover, New)
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One of the United States great promises is that all children will
be given the opportunity to work to achieve a comfortable standard
of living. That promise has faded profoundly for children who grow
up in poverty, particularly black and Hispanic children, and many
of the deepening fault lines in the social order are traceable to
this disparity. In recent years the promise has also begun to fade
for children of the middle class. Education and hard work, once
steady paths to economic success, no longer lead as far as they
once did. But that doesn't have to be the case, as Duncan Lindsey
shows in this articulate, impassioned volume. We can provide true
opportunity to all children, insuring them against a lifetime of
inequality, and when we do, the walls dividing the country by race,
ethnicity, and wealth will begin to crumble.
Long a voice for combating child poverty, Lindsey takes a balanced
approach that begins with a history of economic and family policy
from the Great Depression and the development of Social Security
and moves onward. He details the shocking extent of economic
inequality in the U.S., pointing out that this wealthiest of
countries also has the largest proportion of children living in
poverty. Calling for reform, Lindsey proposes several viable
universal income security policies for vulnerable children and
families, strategies that have worked in other advanced democracies
and also respect the importance of the market economy. They aim not
just to reduce child poverty, but also to give all children
meaningful economic opportunity. Just as Social Security alleviates
the sting of poverty in old age, asset-building policies can
insulate children from the cumulativeeffects of disadvantage and
provide them with a strong foundation from which to soar.
Politicians, pundits, and parents always say that children are the
future, but as long as so many grow up poor or without opportunity,
that slogan will sound hollow. Duncan Lindseys book should be read
by anyone who wants to know how we can take real action to brighten
the future for children and for society as a whole.
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