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Paradise does not exist for the children of the USA
By Luis Beatón
Barack Obama’s administration heads an historic attack on public education with hundreds of schools having closed and hundreds of thousands of teachers losing their jobs over the last four years.
This could seem an exaggeration, but statistics from all sorts of sources show that the United States is not a paradise for children, as among many other things, one in seven are subject to high levels of poverty.
A recent report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) which attacks the growing levels of poverty in the main capitalist countries places the USA low down in relation to other developed nations.
The study by UNICEF maintains that according to the global indicator, Washington is 26th out of 29, behind Greece and just ahead of Lithuania, Latvia and Romania.
The text places the country at 27 when the indicator of education is taken into account, while in regard to material wellbeing of children the US is at number 26. This is despite having the highest Gross Domestic Product in the world.
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