Wasting America's Future: The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty

by Children's Defense Fund and Marian Wright Edelman

Book Overview

The Health and Human Services poverty line for a three-person family in America is $11,8oo in annual income. One in every five American children is growing up in poverty. What does child poverty mean for the economic and societal future of our country? The Children's Defense Fund, widely considered the most powerful force for children in America, has assembled expert and ground-breaking information on how poverty affects health, childhood deaths,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807041076
• ISBN13: 9780807041079
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.2"