Welfare of Children in the United States



Welfare of Children in the United States

Global Poverty and United States

Each country defines poverty in their ways; there is not one definition for poverty. Generally it is defined as having a deficiency of money or means of survival or state of being poor (Barker, 1997). Means of survival are measured by safe drinking water, hygiene, waste collection, roads, street lights, footpaths, transportation, electricity, and other infrastructure services. In a study by The World Bank (2008) of global poverty, 1.3 billion people hang about below the poverty line with an income of US $ 1.25 ...