In Cambodia, education is really a luxury, and many kids are thrown into work as early as possible. This means they can help support their parents, as often the parents don't even earn a living wage.
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.
In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.
Free quality health facilities have been made available to the children of the poor families through Daanish School System.
If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
Kids from poor families might be nicer, the might be happier, they might be more polite---but in countless ways, the manner in which they are raised puts them at a disadvantage in the measures that count in contemporary American society.
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.
Venezuela is supporting tens of thousands of poor families in the United States with heating oil.
My parents both came from very poor working-class families.
