Posted on 10/22/2014 9:15:22 PM PDT by Nachum
Child poverty in America is at its highest point in 20 years, putting millions of children at increased risk of injuries, infant mortality, and premature death, according to a policy analysis published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. As the U.S. emerges from the worst recession since the Great Depression, 25% of children don’t have enough food to eat and 7 million kids still don’t have health insurance, the analysis says. Even worse: Five children die daily by firearms, and one dies every seven hours from abuse or neglect. “It shouldn’t be this hard for kids to grow and thrive
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So “ Yes we can “ and all the other chants aren’t working?
Shocking, I tell you.
next, we try hashtags. That’ll work.
Do these poor kids still have X-boxes, Nikes, iPhones, name-brand clothing, air conditioning, free breakfast/lunch & snacks at school, laptops, big screens...
What a pile of horse pucky. The only children who aren’t getting enough to eat are those whose schools are forcing Michelle’s nutritionally deficient lunches on the poor kids.
What happened to the childhood obesity epidemic? Or is that last week’s meme?
Do the five children a day who die from firearms include members of youth gangs who get in gunfights???
Who has been president and presided over these bad conditions for the last six years????
http://eagnews.org/thanksobama-student-photos-of-paltry-school-lunches-raise-alarm/
Swell job there Obama
I’d like to know the definition for “children”....
Since Clinton was President. Big shocker here.
I see a lot of poor fat kids...they get to eat whatever they want as long as mommy or daddy doesn’t actually have to make it or bake it...
Bush’s Fault
I don’t want to hear about “child poverty” until the Kenyan stops importing it in from Mexico, Central and South America. “Child poverty” isn’t the taxpayers’ problem. Barry and his ‘RATS can take care of it with their OWN MONEY!
Lord Foul is just like a mega church minister, they preach sharing, sacrifice and unity all the while living like little neros looking down on their subjects!
Swell job there Obama
We know he’s proud of himself.
How is anyone in poverty?
Free housing, free food, free medical, free transportation....ok if they are poor they are not suffering.
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