blog 9

In this blog I will try to discuss the relationship between the working poor womens condition and children in poverty. It is fairly easy to understand in my opinion. Those children that are born into a family that is poor tend to live in adversity and poverty. The lack of help or reform due by the government has not helped but put a strain in the working mothers of America. Instead of asking for aid or help in order to get any mother are now struggling to get little and maybe not the necessary to provide for their children.
The charts from the National Center for Children in Poverty demonstrated that children in America are the same as working poor women, a majority are black, Latino and American Indian and Asian; they are minorities. I was courious to know about children in poverty in Arizona and it was about the same characteristics except that native Americans being the highest then Hispanics, blacks, Asians and at the lastly whites making only 10 %. It was interesting to know some of the facts about children with immigrant parents whether they are documented or undocumented. Children are at a higher risk of being and continuing being poor. I guess some factors would be instability to keep a job due to language, legal status, or resource. I find this very interesting because this is another factor government should take a look at next time an immigration reform or anything of the sort is looked at these numbers should resonate 47% of our state and 26% nationally are poor children of immigrant parents.

Inadequacy in measurement is causing a huge impact on poor families. Due to the 1950s, families spend about a third of their income on food. This measure has become the grounds for measurement which frankly is past due date.

The solutions is to give tax credits to parents , raise minimum wage, and give parents sick days off as well as more benefits. The article states that “Policies such as earned income tax credits and regular increases in the minimum wage are critical to supporting income growth for low-wage workers. These workers also need access to benefits that higher-wage earners take for granted, such as health insurance and paid sick leave”. It is important that parents do not feel that they can not get sick or be with there sick children they should have some security at least in their jobs. The article also suggests to “Support parents and their young children”
The article goes on to say that“… children need nurturing families and quality early learning experiences. Investments in preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds are just as critical. High-quality early childhood experiences can go a long way toward closing the achievement gap between poor children and their more well-off peers”
Chaundry also suggest the same. There is a need of more support “We could replace welfare with more supports and opportunities for children…”. We just need to give importance to this issue and do something about it not just give help but ask more in return.