The United States leads the industrialized world in the percentage of children at or below the poverty line as well as leads the entire world in the number of people in prison. There is direct correlation between child poverty, drop out rates and incarceration and the United State of America is #1 at locking people up. $50,000 a year to keep someone in prison - imagine what we could do if we spent that money on education and health care for these kids.
all too true.
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