ABSTRACT
All nations begin with the issue of preventing severe poverty and disadvantage for at-risk children. The major difference we note is that other nations are able to produce [much] lower levels of child poverty than in the United States …. Our high-income children do very well in real terms compared to similar children in other nations. No one wants to take away these advantages for which the parents of these children work long and hard. What is needed is a reasonable response to the real needs of low-income American children. And as other nations have shown, there is an answer that we can find if we have the national will to face up to the sobering facts.
