According to an article I found on Time.com, the Census Bureau reports that one in six Americans now live in poverty. While a "supercommittee" is currently trying to decide how to handle where our cut from the federal budget should be, the portion responsible for covering child needs is looking to get smaller. A program called Building Futures in Washington was created to "promote "middle-skill" jobs that don't necessarily require a college degree." This program offers $10 a day per person to cover transportation and food along with teaching the attendees particular courses in order to get those better prepared and capable of landing a job, which would boost consumer spending and strengthen our economy.
I suggest you all read this because I find it almost appalling that even though we claim that 'children are our future', we have no problem firing mentors, making insane budget cuts in our schools, and now we're going to jeopardize the health and well-being of what could be the one finding a cure to a disease you have one day. There has to be another solution to all of this. Check out this jibberish here: Census Data Show Poverty’s Creep, Lasting Effects of Recession
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