Childhood poverty and the social safety net by Charles N. Oberg, MD, MPH and Andrea Aga, BA; examining the landscape of child poverty in the US today by Vanessa R. Wight, PhD, Michelle Chau, BS, Kalyani Thampi, BA, and Yumiko Aratani, PhD. Foreword.

摘要

"Children are our greatest national resource... it is through them that we invest in the future of the economy, in the Nation's future security and in its future social health and stability." Alan Pifer, President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York, made this assertion in the 1990 before the groundbreaking work of Nobel laureate James Heckman, PhD. As Dr. Oberg notes in this issue, helping children escape the scourge of chronic poverty has both a moral and an economic imperative.