UNIT B: Blog 9: Working Women’s Unpaid Labor

Blog # 9

The working poor are a huge problem in the United States. There are 13 million children in the United States that are living in low income families that are only making $20,000 a year of a family of four. Today there are 1.3 million more children that are living in poverty than there were in 2000. The problem with families and children living in poverty is a huge one that will always be an increasing problem with the United States does not do anything about it. The problem is that millions are children, who are our future, are living in poverty and not getting the resources that they deserve because their mothers are not able to get out of poor working conditions. From our reading “Who are America’s poor children?” it states that research shows that “on average families need an income that is twice the amount of the federal poverty line.

In 2005 28 million or 39% of the United States children are living in low income and poverty homes. These numbers along with the research that families making $40,000, two times as much as the poverty line, such be considered low income and such be subsidized by the government. Officials know that this policy is “flawed” to say the least, but they have yet to be any action in changing it. Another question is who and why are these children living in poverty and there is an explicit line coming from their parents as to why. Children that have immigrant parents are living in poverty. In states with the highest immigrant rates the number of children living in poverty ranges from 14% to 40%, and 26% of children that are immigrants in total are poor. The fact is that children are living in very poor and poverty stricken situations where they have no outs because they are young. In the United States 16% of household with children are living with fears of not having food and 19%
of poor children do not have health care.

In 2005, in 13 states across the United States 20% of children were living in poverty, this mostly see in the southern and most eat coast states. Also 15% to 19% of children were living in poverty in 19 states spread out around the United States which include CA, FL, IL, IN, KS, OH, OK, TN, WA, WI, MO, MI, and more. In 17 other states in the United States 10% to 14% of the children were living in poverty such as AK, CO, ID, IA, MA, MN, NV, ND, WY, and more. In 2005 the highest ranking ethic background for children living in poverty in the United States were African American children at 35% of the poverty rate followed by American Indians at 29%, Latinos at 28%, Asian at 11%, and then white children at 10%. Another statistical chart from 2005 shows that children that have parents that are not native born are more likely to be living in poverty than children who’s parents are born in the United States across all states varying a little by states within different regions, but still maintains the structure of this claim. For example, children of immigrants parents in poverty in CA are 26%, in FL it is 20%, IL 20% and so on and then for children who’s parents are native-born and are in poverty in CA it is 14%, in FL it is 18%, and then IL it is 17%. Children all over the United States are living in poverty because of their families’ situations. AS discussed in previous blogs women’s poor working conditions is a cycle in which they can not get out of, which causes poverty in the family, and the causes their children to live in poverty and not get everything that they need.