WASHINGTON, DC–The Senate Select Committee On Child Poverty released a report Monday attributing the large number of American children living below the poverty line to a lack of child jobs. “If you want to know why 14 million children in this country are living in poverty, all you have to do is take a look at the U.S. child-unemployment rate–it currently stands at 99 percent,” said committee chair Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS). “If we are to have any chance of fighting child hunger, illiteracy and illness, we need to get these kids back on their feet and working again.”
Senate Committee Links Child Poverty To Lack Of Child Jobs
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