| Wasting America's Future: The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty Contributor(s): Edelman, Marian Wright (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807041076 ISBN-13: 9780807041079 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $17.82 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1994 Annotation: Wasting America's Future presents, for the first time in one place, sweeping evidence on the human, social, and economic costs of child poverty in America. The book gives often surprising evidence that even a brief episode of poverty can do lasting damage to children; or that low family income is a devastatingly powerful predictor of negative outcomes for children, including low birthweight, childhood injury and death, and low educational achievement and future earning capacity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - General - Family & Relationships | Parenting - General - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness |
| Dewey: 362.508 |
| LCCN: 94-28889 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 7.34" W x 9.16" (0.85 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Health and Human Services poverty line for a three-person family in America is $11,8oo in annual income. One in every five American children is growing up in poverty. What does child poverty mean for the economic and societal future of our country? The Children's Defense Fund, widely considered the most powerful force for children in America, has assembled expert and ground-breaking information on how poverty affects health, childhood deaths, low birth weight, and injury; on the insidious connections between low family income and learning disabilities; on links between poverty, abuse, and neglect and self-esteem; and much more. Wasting America's Future is the crucial citizen's handbook as we continue the national debate on welfare reform. |