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Poverty in Americas Chil
Title: Poverty in Americas Chil
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1215 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Poverty in Americas Chil
The federal government classifies a family as poor if it’s pretax cash income falls below a certain minimum standard. This standard was established by dividing the average expenditure for a minimally adequate diet by the average share of family income spent on food. The federal poverty line is adjusted for family size and for changes in the average cost of living in the United States, but it is not adjusted for regional or local …showed first 75 words of 1215 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1215 total…maltreatment in poor families as a result of the many risks associated with living in
poverty-among them chronic and severe stress, inadequate social support, and residence
in dangerous housing and socially disrupted neighborhoods. Among poor families it is
such situational factors, rather then serious psychopathology, that mat be responsible for
perhaps
Bibliography
American Children in Poverty. Children's Defense Fund.1984.
Livel, K.L, The School as a Tool for Survival. New York: National Cenbter of Poverty. 1990.
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