However most scholars and researcher tend to agree that at least part of the poor children will become wealthier as they grow, an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review points out that these future adults will struggle the effects of early poverty for the rest of their lives. "Some 17% of children in America live in families with incomes below the federal poverty line, according to a 2005 U.S. Census Bureau report. A minority of these children will escape poverty by the time they grow up. Even so, their bodies will still bear the marks of their early deprivations as they succumb to higher rates of cancer, infectious diseases, arthritis, and other ailments" (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2008).

5. Conclusions

The matters of poverty, income inequality...

The basic fact is that society changes and along with it so do the characteristics of poverty, such as the composition of the poor population or the effects of poverty on society as a whole. And children seem to be heavily affected by poverty both in the present but also in the future.
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