The Eternal Price of Poverty

Research continues to further prove without question that actions and inactions taken by parents with young formative growing children have a lifetime effect on the very lives of those children well into adulthood. Nutrition, discipline, structure, love, concern, care, and attention on a physical, mental, emotional, and psychological level and more are critically essential in developing a child into a contributing, successful, fulfilled adult and citizen. Unfortunately, greed and inattention by many in positions of power and influence continue to ignore the evidence and perennially establish and pursue policies and programs that are highly destructive to millions of children nationwide and billions globally. Eradication of poverty, dispair, and economic injustice has to be one of the highest priorities of American political and business leadership, particularly when it concerns children. To not make this a dedicated movement paramount is to continually resign untold numbers of children to lives where they end up costing society enormous amounts of resources and increasing the inefficiency and inproductivity of society. Potential is a terrible thing to discard, especially when those individuals are never given a chance or opportunity to succeed and thrive when denied essential elements when children.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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