Child Labor in China

In China, there are children who gives their childhood life up just to work for people. Child labor is one of the biggest problems in China, workers would prefer children to work under them because they would be willing to do whatever anyone tells them to, not only that, they work faster and are cheaper to pay. There is a law called, The Compulsory Education Law of the Chinese, and that is for children under the age of sixteen. Children at that age are not allowed to have a full time job and are required to go to school. But now, ten percent of children in China do not attend to school because their government secretly hires them to do a full time job. Not only the government who allows the children to work, parents do too. In China, the parents feel like the best "education" for their kids is at work not school because they don't learn any skills at school compared to at work. They also send their children to work because they are not able to afford it, their child works also to support their family too. The government is one of the big reason of why child labor is still happening because they believe that this could be a way to help poverty. If the government

had different views on this, there could be a way for this to end but because of them, there is no sign of any improvement there and banning child labor is not an important issue to them.

http://homeport.tcs.tulane.edu/~rouxbee/kids99/china2.htmlhttp://izismile.com/2009/10/20/about_child_labor_in_china_20_pics.html

BLOG #1 - POVERTY in AMERICA

Poverty happens everywhere, even in America. There are million of people who experience poverty all over America. Because of the poverty happening in America, by the year of 1964, President Lyndon Johnson decided to do something about this. He helped by giving money to the U.S. government around town so they could support those in needs. Not just money, the government also provided jobs for those who needed one and last, he fixed homes that were decaying. Unfortunly, this did not help so much, by 1996, more people experienced poverty compared to back then. Young people and mostly children suffered poverty the most during that time.
During 1995, we had people like this woman, Fay Coffman. She had three children and lived with her mother, she experienced poverty because she only got $700 to support her, her children and mother which was not a great help for her. Coffman said this, “I was on welfare, food stamps, lived in the project, no car, no way to make ends meet. It was hard, and it was very, very depressing”. Luckily, in the end, she got better support and now lives in Missouri with her own home and car. She worked at a self-help agency and because of that job, she was able to receive all this support and finally could have enough food for her kids and mother.
Again, children experience poverty more than anyone else. In this article, it was said that about fifteen million children, one out of four, they experience poverty. Twenty-two percent of children who are under eighteen and twenty-five percent of under twelve are hungry. Because of poverty, twenty seven children die and not only that, 2,660 children are born into poverty. This shows how bad poverty is and the worst part is that it is also happening here in America. America, OUR own country is experiencing this and it is sad how we don’t really do anything about this.

http://www.heartsandminds.org/articles/childpov.htm

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