Wasting America's Future presents, for the first time in one place, sweeping evidence on the human, social, and economic costs of child poverty in America. The book gives often surprising evidence that even a brief episode of poverty can do lasting damage to children; or that low family income is a devastatingly powerful predictor of negative outcomes for children, including low birthweight, childhood injury and death, and low educational achievement and future earning capacity. | Wasting America's Future by Marian Wright Edelman, Paperback | Indigo Chapters