America's Forgotten Children Report
There are places where one out of every six children suffers in poverty; where they can’t read in school because they have no glasses; where they can’t drink the water because it’s contaminated; where many don’t receive their basic immunizations; and where few have health insurance.
There are places where nearly half of population has no access to public transportation; where more than half of families don’t have automobiles; where one in five children can’t get to a doctor when they are sick because they have no way to get there; and where one in four can’t call for medical help because they don’t have a telephone.
There are places where children’s futures are stunted by limited and substandard educational opportunities, and parent’s ability to work and provide for their families is limited because they don’t have child care or places for their children to go after school; where many youth turn to drugs or gangs; and where others commit suicide.
In some of these places, things are getting even worse.You may think these children live in the poorest parts of the developing world. They don’t. They live in the backyards of rural America...in the back woods and mountains of Appalachia, on the “other side of the tracks” in the Mississippi River Delta, in shanties along the Mexican border, or in isolated American Indian Reservations of the Southwest. They are locked in remote and heartbreaking rural poverty and are America’s forgotten children.
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