US leads industrialized world in child poverty rates

[DaveSZ]

http://www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/repcard1e.pdf


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, February 22, 2001


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New fully comparable figures on child poverty across the industrialized world and the 50 United States show a huge disparity from country to country and state to state. While Sweden leads the world with only 2.4 percent child poverty, New York State, at 26.3 percent, ranks last in the industrialized world – behind Italy at 19.3 percent, the closest OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) nation. California is not far behind with 25.7 percent, and in President Bush’s home state of Texas, 20.7 percent of the children live in poverty.


http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/releases/child_poverty.htm

[LittleApple81]

1. Yeah...Sweden children are royally f*cked up because GAYS are allowed

to marry in Sweden... This is for those of you that had the pleasure to listen to Santorum on Tuesday.

[DaveSZ]

2. Yep

Thank God children grow up in a country where they aren't allowed to marry box turtles.

[tech3149]

3. We're #1 We're #1

If this weren't so sad it would be funny.
When do we change our motto?
America, Land of the Free Home of the Brave

America, Racing towards the bottom in the 21st Ccentury

[Zorra]

4. Children never do well in a fascist-corpzi state.