article and reflection

1. Read this from the Children’s Defense Fund’s State of Children 2021

https://www.childrensdefense.org/state-of-americas-children/

Please read the Introduction, the Overview and Moments

https://www.childrensdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Child-Poverty-in-
America-2017-National-Fact-Sheet.pdf

Give me a synopsis and tell me why children in poverty are not being well-served
and if you think this situation may be getting worse or better and how with the
economy as it is right now. How might the increasing numbers of young women
having children without being married affect this? How might this have changed
in today’s economy with the government shutdown we had, what is happening to
health care availability and a tax “cut” that doesn’t serve poorer families?

Chapter 10

The main website we will be working with is

https://agingstats.gov/docs/LatestReport/OA20_508_…42020.pdf

Read pages 2-13 of Older Americans 2020
Look at the following questions and answer them
o What changes can you see in the composition of the elderly
population?
o Observe the differences in marital status and living arrangements
between men and women. Why do you think these differences
occur? Which elderly are more likely to end up or be in nursing
homes?
o Observe also the geographical distribution of the elderly population.
Why is it so imbalanced?