America’s Urgent Need to Tackle Child Poverty, in 3 Charts

(Oct. 29) – Grow­ing up poor has wide-ran­ging neg­at­ive ef­fects. De­pend­ing on where they live, Amer­ica’s poor chil­dren are less likely to have ac­cess to good pub­lic schools and less likely to earn high­er wages later in life. In chil­dren, poverty is also linked to slower brain de­vel­op­ment (which fur­ther wor­sens aca­dem­ic per­form­ance) and health prob­lems, such as asthma and obesity.