The Cost of Poverty

By ignoring the poor and avoiding poverty reducing strategies, we have created a price tag that will carve itself into the budgets, hearts and social fabric across the country. Children who grow up in extreme poverty, don't often have an opportunity to learn the skills they need to know in order to be successful in today's fast-paced society. Combine the monstrous rates of incarceration for the poor, medical costs and the cost to neighborhoods and individuals and you have got yourself a $500 billion dollar a year ticket that does nothing to reinvest itself in people it's taking care of.

Read the NY Times Op-Ed here