In five pages this paper considers the global widening between the gap of the affluent and the impoverished with the United Kingdom's child poverty issues and France's success among the topics discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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greater proportion of the Earths and human societies riches, those who were once able to "make ends meet" are now struggling to even hold on to the ends. The world
saw an extreme example of what could go wrong with national economies with the Asian financial crisis in the second half of the 1990s. In the past year, even
before the terrorist attacks in the United States, the American economy was beginning to falter. And, throughout the European Union, governments, organizations and individual citizens are struggling to find their
economic balance in the ever changing world that has come about in the midst of unification. In Great Britain, as throughout the world, it is the children who are
most gravely affected by poverty and the lack of social equity that would allow them the opportunity to move beyond the place in which fate has placed them. In the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation report "Poverty and Social Inclusion" that received so much media attention in 2000, the point is made that the number of families living in poverty was 24
percent in 1999 compared to 14 percent in 1983 (Internet source). The situation appears to have begun to improve in 2001 and the hope must be that it is not
too little too late. British Children and Poverty Davies (1998) wrote an essay for New Statesman that received a great deal of attention and criticism. In it, he discussed
the practice of "social exclusion" and poverty that exists in the UK that has never before been seen. He explains that it is not the sort of poverty of the
years during and immediately following World War II but a far more "complex" state of being poor. He blames the government for many of the problems and uses words such